The project "Digitality - Diversity - Producing: Practices of Popular Music in Schools and Further Education (DiDiPro)", funded by the BMBF's "Competence Centres for Digital and Digitally Supported Teaching in Schools. Centre of Excellence for artistic and creative subjects and sport", the project "Digitality - Diversity - Producing: Practices of popular music in schools and further education (DiDiPro)" is developing diversity-sensitive further and continuing education for (prospective) music teachers with a focus on digital music production. Against this background, DiDiPro aims to develop, expand and later transfer specialised and didactic skills and abilities of teachers along diversity-sensitive approaches to producing in the context of popular music (cultures). Producing combines a variety of core practices of popular music. This means that, on the one hand, it harbours enormous potential for music teaching that has been largely neglected in German-speaking countries to date. On the other hand, an unreflected introduction of aspects of producing into music lessons can not only overburden those involved, but also reinforce social inequalities.

Based on three music institutes in Oldenburg, Münster and Lüneburg with special expertise in the areas of diversity, digitalisation and music teacher training, the network creates new transnational synergies between university and college locations as well as various teacher training institutions in the field of music at regional (competence centres for teacher training), supra-regional (state institutes for school development, state music academies) and national level (Federal Association for Music Education, BMU). In addition, Helvetia rockt (Bern) and the company Ableton (Berlin) are two partners from the field of popular music practices. The interdisciplinary project integrates music education perspectives with broad expertise from teacher training in theory and practice, popular music studies, sound studies and cultural and media studies research.

Together, the project partners are developing seven modules for teacher training programmes in the field of producing and diversity. The modules will be developed in five sub-projects (TP) at the three university locations in co-operation with three cross-phase development teams. The establishment of diversity-sensitive approaches to producing as a central field of action in music teaching will be implemented through the systematic creation, evaluation and provision of the modules, the development of further education and training programmes, contributions to congresses and symposia as part of nationwide teacher training and further education, publications in relevant publication organs and the establishment of an openly accessible, cross-phase teaching-learning platform as OER for music teacher training.

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Contact person for the project: Prof Dr Mario Dunkel