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Immigrant students' development of musical agency – exploring democracy in music education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2010

Sidsel Karlsen  and
Heidi Westerlund
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Abstract

In this article, we argue that the musical schooling of immigrant students could be seen as forming a healthy test for any educational context in terms of how democracy is enacted. We engage in a discussion linking music education, agency, pluralism and democracy. In our theoretical reconstruction of multicultural music education we first make a review on how music education literature has approached the cultural and musical schooling of immigrant students. We then attend to sociological theories to discuss why development of musical agency may be of particular importance to first generation immigrant students and how agency-enhancing music education may be connected to the development of sound democratic practices in the 21st century schooling.

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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , November 2010 , pp. 225 - 239
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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