Support – Fit – Responsibility. The Significance of the Music Learning Workshop for Teacher Training in Music Education as perceived by those involved

Abstract

Learning workshops have existed at German universities for more than 30 years. The aim was and still is for students to experience themselves as learners and teachers alike by addressing themselves to interesting questions and phenomena in a self-active way. On the other hand, learning workshops with a focus on music are rare. Since October 2015, the author has implemented such a music learning workshop at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. The first part of the article introduces the concept of the learning workshop and considers special house requirements. The second part presents a quality-empirical research study, which aimed to illuminate the music learning workshop as a conjunctive space of experience in the perception of the participants. The sense-genetic types reconstructed in the course of the documentary method illustrate different aspects of participation. These types of participation not only shed light on the underlying utilitarianist understanding of education of the participants, but also focus on relevant aspects of further development.