”MER MUSIK TILL FOLKET!” : Musikdidaktisk studie av specialpedagogers tal om musik som stöd

Sammanfattning: Our experience is that music is something that can support us in different contexts. Music could be seen in preschools as a special educational support, but there is a shortcoming in the relation between special education and music didactics. The purpose of the study is to examine and analyze from a music didactic perspective how special educators view music in preschool. The examination is of qualitative method and consists of semi-structured interviews. We discuss the results based on the issues where we start from previous research. The discussions that arise in a context where music is mentioned, the “external-musical” purpose of music and the organizational, group and individual level. The results of our analysis show that the special educators' focus is on organization and group for the individual, which means that they focus on an overall holistic perspective. The respondents state that their competence in music is not so broad, but they also mention that they see a great importance in using music to support children's learning and development. The results of the survey show that music is alive in preschool activities, but mainly as a means of support in other subjects, such as language development, movement, mathematics but also social skills. Which also leads to a shortage of special educators talking about music.