@article{Pande-Rolfsen_Heide_2020, title={Sounding Shakespeare: An Interdisciplinary Educational Design Project in English and Music}, volume={7}, url={https://boap.uib.no/index.php/emco/article/view/2830}, DOI={10.15845/emco.v7i1.2830}, abstractNote={<p><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0">This article outlines </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0">Sounding Shakespeare,</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0"> an interdisciplinary project in Music and English, carried out with student teachers in Norway. The aims of the project are to explore and develop new ways of working with Shakespeare cross-</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="SpellingError SCXW24868000 BCX0">curricularly</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0"> through educational design research, </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0">focusing</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0"> on creative and aesthetic processes in order for student teachers to gain experience in working across subjects, and to decrease their fear factor of using Shakespeare in the classroom. The current curriculum changes in Norwegian primary and secondary education (</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="SpellingError SCXW24868000 BCX0">Fagfornyelsen</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0">) focus on experimentation, exploration and creative processes, and these are guiding educational principles that also provide a foundation for the </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0">Sounding Shakespeare </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0">project. Our research into student teachers’ experiences of working with Shakespeare’s texts, constitute the starting point for this article. In the project, students worked in two different workshops with Speech and Music Composition to collaborate and devise a performance based on </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0">A Midsummer Night’s Dream </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0" lang="EN-GB" xml:lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24868000 BCX0">as their focus text. Through voice and prosody, students explored the musicality of Shakespeare’s text, and through music composition, students experimented with soundscapes in creative processes. In the final part of the workshops, students collaborated towards performances. Based on our collected data, our main finding shows how music can become a guiding agent for a meaningful experience of literature. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW24868000 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}"> </span></p>}, number={1}, journal={Early Modern Culture Online}, author={Pande-Rolfsen, Marthe Sofie and Heide, Anne-Lise}, year={2020}, month={Jan.}, pages={87–104} }