Nordisk musikkpedagogisk forskning. Årbok 16

Volume 16 of Nordic Research in Music Education Yearbook includes 16 articles. The themes of the contributions represent a wide variety of interests within the Nordic music education community, including philosophy of music education, classroom teaching, students’ perspectives, teachers’ perspectives, music education as profession, choir singing, improvisation, composition, school concerts, and lullaby singing. The first three articles of this volume are based on keynote presentations read at NNMPF conference organized at Royal College of Music, Stockholm, April 23–25, 2014. The next four contributions address students’ perspectives in a variety of settings. The following three contributions focus on teachers’ perspectives. The following four texts focus on musical creativity. Then there is a philosophical paper and the concluding article is on the human Bildung potential of parents' lullaby singing. Biographical information about contributors to this volume is given at the ends of each article. The last section of the Yearbook provides an updated list of doctoral dissertations from 2014 in music education, music therapy and related areas