Research

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Focus areas in research

The Professorship's research interests include empirical teaching research, regional music education research, music teaching methodology (didactics), heterogeneity and diversity, and areas of extracurricular music education. Particular emphasis is placed on inclusion/community music and music in prisons.

 

Research projects

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Ongoing research projects

  • Music Development Plan for the City of Ingolstadt (Daniel Mark Eberhard/Sezgin Inceel)

    Abstract:

    The main objective of this commissioned research project is to systematically map the music landscape in Ingolstadt, analyze its strengths and weaknesses, and derive development potential for the future from the results. In addition to creating an empirical basis for assessing the current situation and needs, defining goals, priorities, and measures, coordinating with all relevant interest groups, and ensuring quality assurance and evaluation, the project aims to improve networking and coordination between actors in the music sector.

    Ingolstadt Music Development Plan

    Link and contact: www.musikpädagogik.info

  • Regina Brandhuber: Music moves. Practicing with the help of agile methods from software development

    Abstract:

    Using an interdisciplinary research approach, this work will investigate whether and how agile methods from software development can be meaningfully adapted and used for musical practice processes. The research design incorporates the experience of students at the University of Music, on the basis of which the tools will be developed and refined in a practical manner. To implement the research results in everyday practice, the development of a practical handbook is planned as a transfer service. The obvious resources in agile software development, such as self-organization, teamwork, empirical feedback cycles, and hypothesis-driven approaches, will be prepared as manageable tools for the musical practice process and made available to musicians.

    Link and contact: www.agile-moves.com

  • Matthias Seitz: Vocal ensembles in technological and social change

    Abstract:

    The study is divided into three sections: (1) “The coronavirus pandemic as a catalyst for technological and social change in vocal ensembles,” (2) "Rehearsals and music lessons in the digital space. Technological requirements and teaching quality,“ and (3) ”Master class as a teaching methodology concept in vocal ensembles." The central focus of the research questions is the novel situation for musicians during the pandemic-related cultural restrictions. How can musical and social activity be maintained, and what role do technological conditions play in this? Can the quality of digital music lessons be represented by the current models of teaching research, or does the internet imply different rules? Due to its quantitative and qualitative sub-areas, the work is methodologically based on several scientific procedures: participant observation, expert interviews, focus groups, online surveys, eye tracking, and ambulatory assessment.

    Links

    matthiasseitz.de

    http://märchenprinz.org

  • Lara Koliusis: Choir work in prisons (doctoral degree with Prof. Dr. Kai Koch; second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Daniel Mark Eberhard)

    Brief description:

    This thesis focuses on the methodological and didactic perspective of choir conducting in prisons, which has been a desideratum in music education research to date. It seems clear that the work of choir conductors in prisons requires special skills at structural, pedagogical, didactic, and methodological levels. This aspect will be explored using an open qualitative approach and related expert interviews with choir directors in prisons in order to systematize the field of activity to a certain extent. This systematization could result, for example, in the development of structural concepts that answer the fundamental question of how choir work in prisons can be successful.
     

  • Sandra Sinsch-Gouffi: Music programs in the Uchtspringe forensic hospital (Saxony-Anhalt): Factors influencing the strengthening of resources and the promotion of participation, social learning, and cultural education

    Abstract:

    The number of people in forensic hospitals (forensic psychiatry) in Germany is estimated at around 13,000. Not only is the number of admissions rising steadily, but so is the number of patients with a length of stay of more than ten years. In contrast to regular prisons, the length of stay is indefinite and is reviewed by the courts at regular intervals. These long treatment periods present an exciting and challenging field of activity for music educators. This is because working with mentally ill offenders requires an approach that is sensitive to inclusion and takes existing security measures into account. To date, there has been no scientific groundwork on musical work in forensic hospitals. This research project, which is being carried out at the Saxony-Anhalt Forensic Hospital in Stendal-Uchtspringe, aims to close this gap. Using examples of good practice, a qualitative case study will examine how music programs for mentally ill offenders must be designed in order to promote the personal and social resources of the inmates as comprehensively as possible on the basis of the law on cultural education and participation. The results will be correlated with theory-generating expert interviews. The analysis of different situations and settings will show which measures are particularly good or particularly bad. Based on the results, music education objectives in forensic psychiatry can be justified and formulated.

    Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kai Koch (University of Vechta) Link and contact: https://www.sandrasinsch.de

National and international conferences

Since 2016: Organization and management of the biannual conferences of the Working Group of Music Educators at Bavarian Music Academies and Universities (AMD); organization and management of the annual conferences of the Conference on Music Education at Scientific Universities (KMpWH) from 2020-2022 together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Krettenauer, co-organization of the symposiums of the Bavarian Music Council since 2016, and organization of the following international conferences.