Work Information

Work title: Associate Professor of Music Education at Stord/Haugesund University College, Norway

Key responsibilities:

Teaching, research and project administration

Currently:

Teaching music education at undergraduate and postgraduate courses and doing classroom music research at Stord/Haugesund University College- Music Department. Working internationally as a clinician in music education.

Chairing the post-conference work for the International Society for Music Education (ISME) World Conference Bergen 2002: SAMSPEL- Together for our Musical Future

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CV

I am currently Førsteamanuensis (Associate Professor) of music education at Stord/Haugesund University College in western Norway. Here I teach music education at undergraduate and post graduate levels. My speciality is curriculum studies, music methodology for the general classroom and research methodology for music education.

I was initially trained as a music teacher at Bergen University College and have university degrees in English, Musicology, and Music Education from the University of Trondheim- Dissertation: Music Resources for Schools- An Analysis

I am well known as a clinician, author and arts education policy spokesperson in Norway.

Internationally I have made presentations in Sweden, Korea, Russia, Holland from 1989 onwards, in the United States in 1994 (Urbana, Illinois), 1998 and 1999 (American Educational Research Association), in Ireland in 2000 and in Denmark in 2003.

I have presented at four International Society of Music (ISME) conferences (Leningrad, Seoul, Amsterdam and Bergen) and was a member of the recent ISME Revision Committee. I was a Commissioner for 6 years in the ISME Commission for Music in Schools and Teacher Education and Chair of this Commission from 1996-98. Currently I am a newly elected member to the Board of International Society of Music Education (ISME)

I am the Chair for ISME Bergen 2002, the 25th World Conference in Music Education which took place in Augst 2002, in Bergen , Norway

I chaired the work on the 1997 Norwegian National Curriculum for Music for Primary and Secondary schools and I was also involved in accompanying teacher reforms in Norway on a national level.

Since 1991 I have published extensively: books, articles, music resources and a music library for schools on CDs including national and world composers.

My national publications comprise Music resources (books, leaflets and chapters) and several articles, in Norwegian journals, but also in international ones like British Journal for Music Education (BJME) , the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and the Arts Education Policy Review on topics like music listening and classroom methodology for music education, curriculum reforms, teacher education and arts education policy. Fothcoming publications include a chapter on compositional process in small groups in a new book "Music Composition in the
Schools: A New Horizon for Music Education" edit by Hickey/Reimer (MENC)

I am the immediate past Co-ordinator of national in-service programme for music teachers in primary and secondary schools on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Education . As a part of this work a national in-service event with more than 40 different courses for music teachers over 5 days (Stord(d)kurs) took place every August at my institution.

I edit a national online Music Education Magazine: CoMUs Magazine, and I am an editorial Board member of the online journal IJEA, International Journal of Education and the Arts

I am also the current contact person fin Noway for the European Association of Schoolmusic (EAS).

My main professional interest for the time being is research into the secrets of the general music classroom and the role of indigenous music in music education.

My current classroom research project has the working title: Compositional process as discourse and interaction- a study of children in a school context.

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Publications

Publications in Norwegian.

IIn addition to articles in Norwegian Journals I am editor and main author for the Music Resources Series Music in Use. Books and materials can be viewed and/or ordered at this website: Music in Use-Musikk i bruk

Music in Use-titles:

Listening:

Musikk i bruk . Lyttemetodikk- 1992

Musikk i bruk. Lyttemetodikk II 1998

Musikksamling for grunnskolen. CD I, II og III 1991-97

Composing:

Composing in the Classroom- a Practical Methodology 1997

Filibong- eit brettspel for musikalsk læring 1999

Musicing:

Musicing in the Classroom, I, II, III, IV 1996-1999

Other titles:

Hør lydene. Musikk og språkopplæring med små barn" , 1983, Bok på Cappelen, Oslo

Musikk i klasselærarundervisninga- eit annleis musikk-kurs, Forskingsrapport , Stord lærarhøgskule 1986

Musikk - et spørsmål og inntrykk og uttrykk., Kapitell i Norsk for grunnskuilen , Universitetsforlaget 1989

Lytt til musikken!Artikkel i heftet "Grieg i barnehagen", Griegjubileet (1993)

Lyttemetodikken- disiplinen som forsvann eller musikkpedagogikkens Fugl Fønix?" Artikkel i boka "Musikkpedagogisk antologi", Ad Notam, Oslo 1994

Var du ikkje der du heller? Artikkel i "Musikk og skole" nr. 8, 1994

Frå musikk til Musikk. Artikkel i "Musikk og skole" nr 6 1995

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Contact Information

Mail address: Magne.Espeland@hsh.no

Office phone: +4753491367

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Biographical Information

Born Rogaland, Western Norway

Since 1975 living in Stord, an island south of Bergen

Educated as a music and general teacher in 1969 at Bergen University College, followed by University Degrees in English, Musicology and Music Education (hovedfag), at University of Trondheim.

Associate Professor of Music Education at Stord/Haugesund University College since 1986

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Last Revised: Nov. 2001