Gender Issues in Scandinavian Music Education

Silje Valde Onsrud is associate professor (PhD) in music education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). Hilde Synnøve Blix is professor in aural skills and music education at the Music Conservatory at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Ingeborg Lunde Vestad is professor in music education at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN).

Chapter 1: Introduction: Envisioning gender diversity for music education (Hilde Synnøve Blix, Ingeborg Lunde Vestad and Silje Valde Onsrud) / Chapter 2: Music, gender and social change: Contemporary debates, directions and challenges (Cecilia Björck) / Chapter 3: Singing like a child: Transgressive girlhood in the music classroom (Eirik Askerøi and Ingeborg Lunde Vestad) / Chapter 4: Binary oppositions and third spaces: Perspectives on the interplay between gender, genre practice, instrument and cultural capital in upper secondary schools in Sweden (Carina Borgström Kāllén) / Chapter 5: Equality and sustainable development in Swedish music classrooms (Linn Hentschel and Cecilia Ferm Almqvist ) / Chapter 6: Positioning in a Swedish music profiled school (Mikael Persson) / Chapter 7: Thinking queer pedagogy in music education with Girl in Red (Silje Valde Onsrud) / Chapter 8: On breaking the "citational chains of gender normativity" in Norwegian art and music schools / (Hilde Synnøve Blix and Live Weider Ellefsen) / Chapter 9: Career paths in higher music education: Challenges for gender equality in the arts (Lilli Mittner and Hilde Synnøve Blix)