Musiklärartyper : En typologisk studie av musiklärare vid
kommunal musikskola Tivenius, Olle (2008): Musiklärartyper: En
typologisk studie av musiklärare vid kommunal musikskola. (Music
Teacher Types: A Typological Study of Music Teachers at
Municipal Music Schools.) Örebro Studies in Music Education, 230
pp.The aim of this study is to establish a typology for
instrumental music teachers at Swedish municipal music schools,
and to describe different types, generated from questionnaire-
answers, regarding how their attitudes and valuations in matters
concerning democracy in broad sense are re?ected in their
pedagogical activity.I address the following concrete
questions.• From where do music teachers at Swedish municipal
music and culture schools get their attitudes and valuations,
what circumstances lie behind, and are there speci?c
circumstances that explain attitudes and valuations that are not
embraced by most of them?• How can different types of music
teachers be described?• How do the attitudes and valuati