Reflections on music education : success factors in the creation of learning environments in music

The purpose of the study is to study, from a teacher's perspective, how music teachers describe how they identify success factors for good musical learning environments in music teaching as well as what teachers need to be able to implement it.. The study has a hermeneutic perspective with the hermeneutic circle as a concept. To study how music teachers reflect and reason about success factors and learning, a qualitative semistructured interview study with music teachers who work at secondary school and high school were conducted. Previous research reports on various factors that influence music education from different perspectives such as teacher education, student, music teacher and evaluation perspectives. Results show that the music teachers are satisfied with their teaching situation in many ways and at the same time they see opportunities for improvement. Improvement opportunities that can be difficult to obtain. The discussion clarifies similarities between the previous research but also differences in how the Swedish music teacher works with student focus as a priority. The discussion provides suggestions for further research on the subject where the researcher sees further research on whole and half class in music education and how students view the quality of music education within it