ABSTRACT

This article aims to present how music teachers in Sweden used the facebook group Musiklärarna in the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic (March andApril, 2020) to cope with challenges related to teaching music. The study is based on Biesta’s perspective on the teacher profession. With the consent of the participants, we have analysed the 303 posts (and their comments) that directly addressed the COVID-19 situation during that period. We found that the group works as an important collegial forum and that the teachers pragmatically use the group to solve educational problems; further, the posts concerning work-conditions get the most engagement. The most frequent types of posts concerned how to design teaching situations under the new conditions. Specifically, asking questions, sharing material, asking for material and letting off steam were the most common types. Music teachers seem to be loyal, collegial and intent on solving any challenge to facilitate students’ learning as regulated in the syllabus. We hope this article can motivate other researchers to perform similar studies or build on our results. We conclude by speculating about what the new normal will be for music teachers when the pandemic is over.

摘要

本文旨在介绍瑞典的音乐老师如何在COVID-19大流行的前两个月（2020年3月和4月）中使用Facebook团体Musiklärarna来应对与音乐教学有关的挑战。这项研究是基于Biesta对教师职业的看法。在与会人员的同意下，我们分析了303个帖子（及其评论），这些帖子直接解决了该期间的COVID-19情况。我们发现该小组是一个重要的大学论坛，教师们务实地利用该小组解决教育问题；此外，有关工作条件的职位参与度最高。最常见的职位类型涉及在新条件下如何设计教学情境。具体来说，提问，分享材料，索取材料和散发精力是最常见的类型。音乐教师似乎忠于职守，乐于助人并且乐于解决教学大纲中规定的任何挑战，以促进学生的学习。我们希望本文能够激励其他研究人员进行类似的研究或以我们的结果为基础。通过推测流行病结束后音乐教师的新常态，我们得出结论。