According to research and authorities both young people and musicians are in need of hearing health knowledge in order to protect their own hearing. The purpose of this study was to investigate music teacher trainees’ experiences and thoughts concerning hearing health education at their music teacher programmes and internships. A sociocultural framework was used in this study. Semi-structured interviews were utilised to collect viewpoints and experiences from participants. The study involved 4 music teacher trainees, from three different music teacher training programmes. Two students were from the same music teacher programme. The data was analysed using thematic analysis. A sociocultural perspective was also used when analysing the data. The results indicate that music teacher students are not examined in hearing conservation. They do not seem to receive formative assessment in hearing conservation or hearing loss prevention. The staff is not necessarily knowledgeable in hearing conservation, even though they educate future music teachers. The staff does not seem to teach hearing conservation. Some supervisors at the internships were knowledgeable in hearing conservation and appeared to help their younger students understand risks. Other supervisors were not as knowledgeable and could be perceived as relatively passive when their students found themselves in risky sound environments without hearing protection. Social interactions which focused on hearing conservation or hearing loss prevention seemed to be quite absent at higher education and internships in Sweden. In conclusion, according to research and authorities, both youth and musicians are at risk and lack understanding of the risks in their sound environments. Music teachers are expected to teach hearing care according to the curriculum in Sweden, but many music teacher students do not feel well equipped to teach hearing care. It is important to have knowledgeable music teachers who can teach hearing care, as today's youth need this knowledge. The results and conclusions of this study suggest that society needs to equip music teachers at various levels of education with knowledge of hearing care. Several music education students in this study also expressed a desire for more hours of hearing care education at their music teacher programmes. These groups, music teachers and future music teachers, need knowledge of hearing care and hearing loss prevention to create cultures that emphasize hearing care and hearing health.

Detta självständiga arbete handlar om idén om den kulturkanon som ska införas enligt Tidöavtalet som publicerades 2022. Syftet är att belysa hur musiklärarstudenter reflekterar kring en kulturkanon och vilka implikationer den potentiellt skulle ha för musikundervisning utifrån forskningsfrågan; Vad karaktäriserar musiklärarstudenters utsagor om en potentiell kulturkanon och dess implikationer för deras framtida musikundervisning? För att besvara forskningsfrågan har sex musiklärarstudenter, från de senare årskurserna under höstterminen 2023 på Kungl. Musikhögskolan, intervjuats och deras utsagor har analyserats utifrån en kulturhistorisk teori. Resultatet visar på att det existerar en typ av outtalad kanon redan idag samt att innehåll från den används för att mediera förståelse för andra människor baserad på kollektiv kunskap. Resultaten visar även på att det existerar mindre kollektiv samt att ett sådant kan vara en outtalad kanon inom en uttalad kanon. Resultatet visar att informanterna anser det viktigt gällande representation i utförandet och innehållet av en uttalad kanon och vidare att en uttalad kanon kan användas för att styra historia och kollektiv kunskap. Avslutningsvis visar resultatet att en uttalad kanon kan verka hämmande för en musiklärare, men att den kan leda till aktiviteter för kreativitet och fantasi genom en gemensam förståelse av kollektiv kunskap. / This study is about the idea of ​​the cultural canon that’s going to be introduced according to the Tidö-agreement that was published in 2022. The aim is to highlight how music teacher students reflect on a cultural canon and what implications it would potentially have for music education while answering the research question: What characterizes music teacher students' statements about a potential cultural canon and its implications for their future music teaching? To answer the research question, six music teacher students, studying their later years during the autumn semester of 2023, were interviewed and their statements were analyzed from a cultural-historical perspective. The results show that a type of unexpressed canon already exists today and that content from it is used to mediate understanding for other people based on collective knowledge. The result also show that there are smaller collectives and that such can be an unexpressed canon within an expressed canon. The result show that the informants consider representation important in the execution and content of an expressed canon and further that an expressed canon can be used to control history and collective knowledge. In conclusion, the result show that an expressed canon can be inhibiting for a music teacher, but that it can lead to activities for creativity and imagination through a common understanding of collective knowledge.