This is a study that looks at the teaching process of making a dance show within the Community School of Arts from a posthumanist perspective. How does the matter the students meet and the dance teacher uses make a difference? My interest in this question came to grow from my dance related work in a pre-school context where matter is given importance in relation to how children gets possibilities to experience and learn. The research material for this study, however, was generated from the Community School of Arts in Stockholm. The study identifies the matter that is making a difference for the dance teaching and learning in a process towards making a dance show at the Community School of Arts of Stockholm. The matter of importance identified was connected to the subject areas Body, Music/Sound, Clothes, Light and Space. The study investigates and articulates performative force between human and non-human matter, and further how the students and the dance teacher perceive this performative force. The study discusses how dance teaching and learning can benefit from a more reflective use of matter. In connection to the posthumanist approach the study takes a stand for, I argue that knowledge-making in the Community School of Arts can be seen from a rhizomatic perspective. That implies that learning the arts at the Community School of Arts can give students the opportunity to experience art from their different points of interest. To actively acknowledge the performative force of the different material matter involved in the process of creating a dance show, give students a way to develop dance joy. I argue that a more reflective and conscious use of matter can positively transform the dance teaching and learning of today. In a wider perspective the matter of matter in dance teaching and learning is a question that fosters environmental consciousness building on the sense that we share and are part of the same world, where matter matters.

Syftet med denna studie har varit att undersöka på vilket sätt Learning study kan fungera som modell för att utveckla kollegialt lärande och bidra till utbyte av erfarenheter mellan lärare i kommunal musik- och kulturskola. För att undersöka detta har ett arbetslag bestående av fyra gitarrlärare vid en kommunal musikskola fått genomföra en gemensam Learning study, med författaren som handledare. I studien användes en kombination av observation och intervju som metod för att följa arbetet och ta del av de deltagande lärarnas upplevelse av Learning study. Resultatet visade att det, genom att använda modellen Learning study, skapades kollegiala samtal och erfarenhetsutbyten som de deltagande lärarna knappt upplevt tidigare, trots lång erfarenhet i yrket. Likaså är ett resultat att modellen inspirerat lärarna till att prova nya idéer i den egna undervisningen. / The purpose of this study was to investigate how Learning Study can act as a model for developing collegial learning and contribute to experience-sharing between teachers in the Community School of Arts and Music. In order to investigate this, four guitar teachers at a Community School of Music has participated in a joint learning study, with the author as a researcher/facilitator. To evaluate the process and taking part of the participating teachers’ experience of learning study a method combining observation and interview was used. The result shows that by using the learning study method a kind of collegial conversations and experience-sharing was created, which the participating teachers had not experienced before. It also inspired the teachers to try new ideas in their own teaching.