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Cecilia Wallerstedt
Pro-Dean
The Artistic Faculty BoardProfessor
Department of Education, Communication and LearningAbout Cecilia Wallerstedt
I am a professor in Education and I currently work part-time at the Artistic Faculty with assignments as pro-dean where I am responsible for research and postgraduate education, and at the Department of Education, Communication and Learning, where I run the research project FILUR, on developing imagination in preschool .
My research concerns teaching and learning in music, and also other aesthetic subjects. I have conducted studies in various settings, from preschool to upper-secondary school. I am interested in the interaction between teachers and children in classrooms and in preschools. A central question constitutes to investigate what it means to be skilled in different areas, from the learner's perspective, and how the teacher can contribute to children’s learning. Recent research from me and my research group has resulted in a didaktik for preschool - Play-Responsive Early Childhood Education and Care - where we have applied and synthesized concepts from, among other fields, cultural historical theory and communication research. My current project concerns children's imagination, and how it can be developed in preschool. I supervise PhD students in the graduate school Education for play-responsive teaching in the preschool for social and cultural sustainability (PReCEC). In teacher education, I have mainly worked with courses in arts, aesthetics and learning, and sociocultural theory.
I participate in a network for Studies of Artistic Vision, a collaboration between the University of Gothenburg, researchers from Sweden, Norway and Finland, and the Nordic Watercolor Museum, funded by the Nordic Culture Fund. I am also an active member of the Network for Internship Development, Development Pedagogy and Preschool Research, which, among other things, arranges an annual conference for preschool teachers and preschool principals.
My background is as an upper-secondary school teacher in mathematics and music and I defended my dissertation in 2010 in Arts Education at the Academy of Music and Drama. My dissertation was part of a cross-facultative research project on aesthetic subjects in preschool. I examined how children could develop their ability to discern aspects of music with the help of preschool teachers, elementary school teachers and leisure educators. I have been affiliated to the Department of Education, Communication and Learning since 2011, during the years 2016-2022 as the Head of Department.
Completed research projects:
- Musical Interaction Relying On Reflexion (EU Seventh Framework Program; Technology-Enhanced Learning).
- Changing Notational Practices and the Transformation of Musical Knowing Among the Young in the Digital Age (postdoc project funded by GU).
- Play-responsive early childhood education and care (School Institute for Educational Research).
- The Swedish Institute for Educational Research’s systematic review of research on music education in primary school.
Current projects:
- Implementing Play-Responsive Teaching in a municipality, taking the leaders' perspective
- Imagination in Play-Responsive Early Childhood Education and Care: Reclaiming the child's perspective
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Leka på flera språk: Att stötta flerspråkigt deltagande i
förskolan
Hiba Abou-Taouk, Malin Nilsen, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Nordisk Barnehageforskning - 2024 -
Teaching and learning in music education – a
meta-synthesis
Karolina Fredriksson, Olle Zandén, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Music Education Research - 2024 -
Re-mediation in Early Childhood Teachers’ Reasoning about their Role in Play: An Empirical Study of the Learning Process of a Work
Team
Emelie Stavholm, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Early Years - 2024 -
Enhancing sustainable development through analyzing video-sequences in practices developing research
projects
Emelie Stavholm, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf
OMEP European conference: Sustainability from the start - 2024 -
The mediating role of concepts for collective reasoning about integrating play, teaching and digital media in preschool: A potential for enabled agency for early childhood
teachers
Emelie Stavholm, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Journal of Early Childhood Research - 2023 -
Participation and responsiveness: children’s rights in play from the perspective of play-responsive early childhood education and care and the
UNCRC
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Oxford Review of Education - 2023 -
Exploring the mediating role of concepts for reasoning about integrating digital media in preschool: A potential for enabled agency for early childhood
teachers
Emelie Stavholm, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
31st EECERA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Children’s Curiosity, Agency and Participation: Challenges for Professional Action and Development Cascais near Lisbon, Portugal 30th August – 2nd September 2023 - 2023 -
Teaching and learning in music education: A systematic
review�
Karolina Fredriksson, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Olle Zandén
NNRME 28-30 March 2023, University - 2023 -
Enabling Knowledge Development Relevant for
ECEC
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Malin Nilsen
Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals - 2023 -
Terminological and Conceptual Meta-commentaries on Practices-Developing
Research
Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals - 2023 -
Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care
Professionals
Cecilia Wallerstedt, E. Brooks, E. Eriksen Ødegaard, Niklas Pramling
2023 -
Enabling knowledge development relevant för
ECEC
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Malin Nilsen
Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals - 2023 -
Managing the Tension Between the Known and the Unknown in Knowledge-Building: The Example of the Play-Responsive Early Childhood Education and Care (PRECEC)
Project
Cecilia Wallerstedt
Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals - 2023 -
Teaching and Learning Creativity as Content: A Tool-Dependent
Process
Niklas Rudbäck, Cecilia Wallerstedt
The Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music Education - 2022 -
Marknadsskolan står i vägen för
sången
Monica Lindgren, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Göteborgsposten - 2022 -
Så kan musiken komma alla barn till
del
Cecilia Wallerstedt
Förskoletidningen - 2022 -
Teaching activities with toddlers: Considerations on theoretical and empirical
grounds
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Niklas Pramling
Nordisk Barnehageforskning - 2022 -
Toddlers in teaching activities in preschool: Considerations on theoretical and empirical
grounds
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf
30th EECERA ANNUAL CONFERENCE: ‘Cultures of play: Actors, Affordances and Arenas’ Glasgow, Scotland. 23rd – 26th August 2022 - 2022 -
Socioculturally-informed Interaction Analysis (SIA): Methodology and theoretical and empirical contributions of an emerging research program in early childhood
education
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Anne Kultti, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Annika Lantz-Andersson, Mona Lundin, Malin Nilsen, Louise Peterson, Ewa Skantz Åberg, Niklas Pramling
International Research in Early Childhood Education - 2022 -
Evolving and re-mediated activities when preschool children play analogue and digital Memory
games
Malin Nilsen, Mona Lundin, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Early years - 2021 -
Appropriating the concept of metacommunication: An empirical study of the professional learning of an early childhood education
work-team
Emelie Stavholm, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Teaching and Teacher Education : An International Journal of Research and Studies - 2021 -
Triggering in play: Opening up dimensions of imagination in adult-child
play
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling, Pernilla Lagerlöf
Learning, Culture and Social Interaction - 2021 -
Scaffolding creative processes in music: The role of the
teacher
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Rudbäck
Suncoast Music Education Research Symposium XIII Creativity: The Good Life, Spirituality, and the Natural Progression of the Universe, January 27-30, 2021 - 2021 -
“Det låter som…”: Musik som innehåll för
lärande.
Cecilia Wallerstedt
Innehållets didaktik i förskolan. C. Björklund, & I. Pramling Samuelsson (Red.) - 2020 -
Ett sociokulturellt
perspektiv.
Cecilia Wallerstedt
Metodologi: För studier i, om och med förskolan. A. Åkerblom, A. Hellman, & N. Pramling (Red.) - 2020 -
Lekande lätt att lära sig läsa och skriva med tv-programmet Livet i Bokstavslandet i förskola och
förskoleklass?
Kerstin Botö, Annika Lantz-Andersson, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Förskollärares egen forskning. I N. Pramling & I. Pramling Samuelsson (Red.) - 2020 -
‘I don’t even dare to do it’: Problematising the Image of the Competent and Musical
Child
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Music Education Research - 2019 -
The Magical Fruits: Establishing a Narrative Play Frame for Mutual Problem
Solving
Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, P. Lagerlöf, C. Björklund, A. Kultti, H. Palmér, M. Magnusson, S. Thulin, A. Jonsson, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education - 2019 -
Learning, Teaching, and
Didaktik
Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, H. Palmér, M. Magnusson, S. Thulin, A. Jonsson, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education - 2019 -
The Lion and the Mouse: How and Why Teachers Succeed in Becoming Participants in Children’s Ongoing
Play
Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, H. Palmér, M. Magnusson, S. Thulin, A. Jonsson, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education - 2019 -
Formal–informal, exclusion–inclusion: An empirical investigation of Swedish music
education
Cecilia Wallerstedt
Schools and Informal Learning in a Knowledge-Based World. J. Calvo de Mora & K. J. Kennedy (Eds.) - 2019 -
Barns ’agency’ i lekresponsiv
undervisning
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Anne Kultti
Forskning om undervisning och lärande - 2019 -
Play-responsive teaching in early childhood
education.
Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Camilla Björklund, Anne Kultti, Hanna Palmér, Maria Magnusson, Susanne Thulin, Agneta Jonsson, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
2019 -
Lekresponsiv undervisning – ett undervisningsbegrepp och en didaktik för
förskolan
Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Forskning om undervisning och lärande - 2019 -
Lekresponsiv undervisning i
förskolan
Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Forskning om undervisning och lärande - 2019 -
Gästredaktionell
kommentar
Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Forskning om undervisning och lärande - 2019 -
Förskollärares perspektiv på musikundervisningens utmaningar för de yngsta barnen i
förskolan
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Barn - Nordic journal on child and childhood research - 2018 -
Lärares lek och barns arbete: Litteracitetsaktiviteter i
förskoleklassen
Kerstin Botö, Annika Lantz-Andersson, Cecilia Wallerstedt
EDUCARE - 2018 -
"I feel that too": Musical problem-solving and mediation through cultural tools in year-nine pop-ensemble
practice
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Nordic Research in Music Education Yearbook - 2018 -
"Ja tycker om B" - Barns deltagande i läs- och skrivundervisning i
förskolan
Kerstin Botö, Annika Lantz-Andersson, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Forskning om undervisning och lärande - 2017 -
"Det är grå som en sill": Om lärande, frihet och begränsningar i konstpedagogisk
verksamhet
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Konstnärligt seende och vad barn kan lära på museum - 2017 -
Visuell kultur för, med och av barn - En konstpedagogisk vandring på en konsthall och sökandet efter en försvunnen
björn
Anna Berglund, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Konstnärligt seende & Vad barn kan lära på museum - 2017 -
Estetiska uttrycksformer och
lärande
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Förskolan och barns utveckling: Grundbok för förskollärare - 2017 -
Att stötta de yngsta förskolebarnens lärande i
musik
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Förskolans yngsta barn: Perspektiv på omsorg, lärande och lek. - 2017 -
Konstnärligt seende och vad barn kan lära på
museum
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Anna Berglund, Niklas Pramling
2017 -
Critical perspective in researching music education and equality – what, why and
how?
Monica Lindgren, Åsa Bergman, Cecilia Björck, Carina Borgström Källén, Cecilia Wallerstedt
The 22nd Annual Conference of the Nordic Network for Research in Music Education, March 14-16 - 2017 -
Musik och gemenskap i förskolan: Redskap för
delaktighet
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
H. Harju-Luukainen & A. Kultti (red.). Undervisning i flerspråkig förskola - 2017 -
A critical stance in researching music-learning
processes.
Cecilia Wallerstedt
The 22nd conference of Nordic Network for Research in Music Education: Music Education and Equality. Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg March 14–16, 2017 - 2017 -
"Then I will sing": Framing a popular music performance as a play
activity
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
NERA 2017 Congress, 23‐25 March 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark - 2017 -
Crossing the boundary from music outside to inside of school: Contemporary pedagogical
challenges
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Monica Lindgren
British Journal of Music Education - 2016 -
Communicating in and about
music
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Children's creative music-making with reflexive interactive technology - 2016 -
Musik och kunskap: Reflektioner ur ett pedagogiskt-psykologiskt perspektiv, i spåren av musikens
digitalisering
Cecilia Wallerstedt
M&STE - elektronisk tidskrift för konferensen musik & samhälle - 2016 -
Responsive teaching, informal learning and cultural tools in year nine ensemble practice: a lost
opportunity.
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Instructional Science - 2016 -
Bandformering och genus på 2010-talet: Förändrade villkor för att spela i
band?
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Cecilia Björck, Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt
Educare - 2016 -
Responsive teaching, informal learning and cultural tools in year nine ensemble practice: A lost
opportunity.
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
the NERA 44th Congress: Social justice, equality and solidarity in education? Helsinki, Finland - 2016 -
Musikdidaktik i förskolan: Att utveckla barns skapande
förmåga
Cecilia Wallerstedt
2015 -
Playing by “the connected ear”: An empirical study of adolescents learning to play a pop song using Internet-accessed
resources
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Research Studies in Music Education - 2015 -
‘Is it okay to use the mobile phone?’ Student use of information technology in pop-band rehearsals in Swedish music
education
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Thomas Hillman
Journal of Music, Technology and Education - 2015 -
Micro-genetic development of timing in a
child
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling, Roger Säljö
Mind, Culture and Activity - 2015 -
The tablet computer as a mediational means in a preschool art
activity
Malin Nilsen, Mona Lundin, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Understanding Digital Technologies and Young Children: An international perspective - 2015 -
Technological design and children’s
perspectives
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Niklas Pramling
In S. Robson & S. Flannery Quinn, The Routledge International Handbook of Young Children's Thinking and Understanding - 2014 -
Lärarens roll i barns lärande med en ny musikteknologi. Svenska bidraget till europeiska forskningsprojektet
MIROR
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Niklas Pramling, Bengt Olsson, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Forskning om undervisning och lärande - 2014 -
Grupp och individ i
förskolan
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Man ser inte gruppen för alla barn - individer, grupper och kommunikativa möten i förskolan - 2014 -
Man ser inte gruppen för alla barn: individer, grupper och kommunikativa möten i
förskolan
-
Epilog
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Man ser inte gruppen för alla barn - 2014 -
Att dela
musikupplevelser
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Man ser inte gruppen för alla barn - 2014 -
Playing, new music technology and the struggle with achieving
intersubjectivity
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Journal of Music, Technology and Education - 2014 -
Learning to discern and account: The trajectory of a listening skill in an institutional
setting
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling, Roger Säljö
Psychology of Music - 2014 -
Lärande i musik - barn och lärare i tongivande
samspel
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Musikalisk ämneskunskap i förändring - didaktiska
utmaningar.
Monica Lindgren, Cecilia Wallerstedt
NÄD, Nationell ämnesdidaktisk konferens, Göteborg 2014 - 2014 -
Preschool teachers' skills in teaching music: two steps forward one step
back
Anna Ehrlin, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Early Child Development and Care - 2014 -
Experiencing and creating contrasts in
music
Cecilia Wallerstedt
International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies - 2014 -
Engaging children’s participation in and around a new music technology through playful
framing
Pernilla Lagerlöf, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
International Journal of Early Years Education - 2013 -
Arts Education Through the Lens of Variation
Theory
Cecilia Wallerstedt
EARLI 15 biennial conference - 2013 -
'Here comes the sausage': an empirical study of children's verbal communication during a collaborative music-making
activity
Cecilia Wallerstedt
Music Education Research - 2013 -
Conceptualising early childhood arts education: The cultivation of synesthetic transduction
skills.
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
International Journal of Early Childhood - 2012 -
Learning to play in a goal-directed
practice.
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Early Years - 2012 -
Exploring turn-taking in children’s interaction with a new music
technology
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf
He Kupu - 2011 -
Sjunga är silver, lyssna är guld – förnyad förståelse för kunskap i
musik
Cecilia Wallerstedt
Musik och kunskapsbildning: En festskrift till Bengt Olsson - 2011 -
Didactic challenges in the learning of music-listening
skills.
Cecilia Wallerstedt
Educational encounters: Nordic studies in early childhood didactics - 2011 -
Exploring turn-taking in children’s interaction with a new music
technology.
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Pernilla Lagerlöf
He Kupu - 2011 -
Commentary to Sheila Degotardi: Two steps back: Using Bourdieu’s theory of practice to explore observer identity and
presence.
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Educational research with our youngest: Voices of infants and toddlers - 2011 -
Embodied voices and voicing embodied knowing: Accessing and developing young children’s aesthetic movement
skills.
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Educational research with our youngest: Voices of infants and toddlers - 2011 -
Mind your step: Representation and the trajectory of a circle-dance project with 6-8-year-old
children.
Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Educational encounters: Nordic studies in early childhood didactics - 2011 -
In tune with the learner’s perspective in music: Theoretical and analytical considerations when interviewing
children.
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
Researching young children’s perspectives: Debating the ethics and dilemmas of educational research with children - 2011 -
Att peka ut det osynliga i rörelse: En didaktisk studie av taktart i
musik
Cecilia Wallerstedt
2010 -
Att lära och undervisa i musik – mot nya didaktiska
utmaningar
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Niklas Pramling
Forskning om undervisning och lärande - 2010 -
The art of teaching children the arts: Music, dance, and poetry with children 2-8 years
old
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Maj Asplund Carlsson, Bengt Olsson, Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt
International Journal of Early Years Education - 2009 -
Barns lärande inom musik, poesi och
dans
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Maj Asplund Carlsson, Bengt Olsson, Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Resultatdialog 2009. Aktuell forskning om lärande. Vetenskapsrådets rapportserie 2:2009. - 2009 -
Making musical sense: The multimodal nature of clarifying musical
listening.
Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt
Music Education Research - 2009 -
Konsten att lära barn estetik. En utvecklingspedagogisk studie av barns kunnande inom musik, poesi och
dans.
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Maj Asplund Carlsson, Bengt Olsson, Niklas Pramling, Cecilia Wallerstedt
2008 -
Vad hörde du – om musikalisk
urskiljning
Cecilia Wallerstedt
Didaktiska studier från förskola och skola - 2008