Anna Houmann

Creativities in Practice: Shaping the teaching and learning of music creatively

Dr Anna Houmann is a senior lecturer, researcher and teacher at the Malmö Academy of Music. She has worked as a music teacher, choir leader and vocal teacher in Primary, Secondary and Upper Secondary school. Since 2000, she has been a teacher educator in music education at graduate level. In the Music Education Department, she is a coordinator for the degree projects in the second-cycle and Course Director for educational sciences within the Music Education Programme.

She has also been a project manager together with Gunnar Heiling in developing a music education department at the Vietnam National Academy of Music in Hanoi. She was also a school inspector in the inspection of music as a subject in Primary schools in Sweden.

In 2010, she presented her PhD, Music teacher's discretionary power – possibilities and limitations. In her research, she focusses on what controls how music teachers’ discretionary power is created – or not created – in practice. This is vital to creating good working conditions which, of course, include discretionary power. This also has to do with the crucial factor that music teacher training needs to reinforce pedagogical creativity in music teacher training. Together with Dr Eva Saether, she is engaged in the research project, Creativities Transcending Boundaries in Higher Music Education: http://www.creativities.org/?lang=en.