Geir Johansson, Norwegian Academy of Music RAIME)

Geir Johansson from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo was talking about the students in the music teacher's programme and the relationship between their feeling of identity and their approach to learning: Deep or surface learning. Surface learning is categorized by words like memorizing, reproducing, passivity and a negative attitude to learning in general. Deep learning is consequently the opposite. The student’s judgement of what is relevant in his or her education is very much formed by this experienced identity: Am I a musician och a teacher? It is difficult to handle these two parallel identities and transform them into a “core identity”. The supervisors at the training field may act as a bridge between these different arenas.