期刊名称：International Journal of Education and the Arts
印刷版ISSN：1529-8094
电子版ISSN：1529-8094
出版年度：2017
卷号：18
期号：37
页码：1-30
出版社：Arizona State University
摘要：This qualitative research discusses a Finnish community music project aimed at school
pupils with disabilities. The practices of this project define community music as
community-driven, goal-oriented participatory music-making with a musician as a
facilitator. Instead of the effects on pupils, this research investigates the project’s
impacts on school employees. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted
with special class teachers and special needs assistants (n = 8) to examine their experiences and perceptions of the project’s influences on their work and work
environment. The project’s impacts were related to teachers’ learning of new skills,
positive feelings and increased sense of community within and between the classes of
pupils with special needs. The research is linked to the discussion on artist-teacher
collaboration in schools, on artistic interventions at work, and on artistic initiatives in
the public sector more generally.
