Detta är inte Afrika - Västafrikanska undervisningsmetoder i Sverige
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Title: This is not Africa - West African teaching methods in Sweden. This is a work of "translation". The study started with a musical journey to Guinea, West Africa. It was a field study where I had the opportunity to open my senses towards another culture and another kind of music. I found another learning tradition and decided to try to bring it with me back to Sweden, into the Swedish school system. In Africa I learned about the importance of cooperation and listening. I did the actual "translation" in a music school in Skåne where I am working. I wrote a process folio after each lesson I had with the fourth grade class and with two piano students. I could soon tell that something was missing: the children did not know how to listen to each other. My methods for finding a good collaboration through the master apprenticemethodology (to see, to hear and to do) were an attempt to make the learning in the subject of music meaningful, sustainable and useful. The attempt to translate my experiences turned out to be quite difficult - although some aspects of the West African teaching methodologies were applicable.