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Sven Bjerstedt

Sven Bjerstedt

Associate professor

Sven Bjerstedt

Improvisational approaches to supervision dialogue

Author

  • Sven Bjerstedt

Summary, in English

The reflective processes in which supervisors and doctoral students indulge together may be improvisatory to an important extent. Based on a literature review and a small interview study, I argue that there are important similarities between musical improvisation and supervision dialogue regarding, for instance, the need for structure as well as continuous impulse fluidity, and the need for receptivity as well as initiative. In musical improvisation as well as in supervision, it is crucial to be able to relate simultaneously, by way of qualities such as openness, wholeness, and listening, to both internal and external impulses, to both structural and communicative aspects, and to both one’s own individuality and the tradition in which one is situated. In the concluding discussion, I identify a number of implications for the education of
doctoral supervisors.

Department/s

  • Teachers (Malmö Theatre Academy)
  • Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts

Publishing year

2017

Language

English

Pages

63-76

Publication/Series

Högre utbildning

Volume

7

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Swednet

Topic

  • Music
  • Educational Sciences

Keywords

  • supervision
  • improvisation
  • dialogue
  • conversation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2000-7558