Hidden Elitism: The Meritocratic Discourse of Free Choice in Finnish Music Education System

Autor/inn/en	Väkevä, Lauri; Westerlund, Heidi; Ilmola-Sheppard, Leena
Titel	Hidden Elitism: The Meritocratic Discourse of Free Choice in Finnish Music Education System
Quelle	In: Music Education Research, 24 (2022) 4, S.417-429 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Väkevä, Lauri) ORCID (Westerlund, Heidi)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1461-3808
DOI	10.1080/14613808.2022.2074384
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Music Education; Power Structure; Social Systems; Democratic Values; Equal Education; Case Studies; Correlation; Social Structure; Foreign Countries; Extracurricular Activities; Barriers; Access to Education; Music Teachers; Educational Change; Teacher Responsibility; Decision Making; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Musikerziehung; Social system; Soziales System; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Korrelation; Sozialstruktur; Ausland; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Music; Teacher; Teachers; Musiklehrer; Bildungsreform; Lehrverpflichtung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Finnland
Abstract	This study presents an analysis of hidden elitism in music education through the free choice argument -- that individuals are fundamentally free to choose to study music -- as a meritocratic power structure. Qualitative Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is applied to understand music education as a social system with a special structure in which its purpose regulates its functions and makes them meaningful in a given social setting through discourse. The study shows how free choice can appear both as a democratic principle and a legitimising discursive mechanism restricting the enactment of equality. Through a case, the study then demonstrates, first, how the relationship between the meritocratic discourse of free choice and hidden elitism can be identified by using SSM in the context of Finnish music education system, and second, how professionals can bridge social systems and transgress hidden elitist structures. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01