This research deals with the strengthening of work-life cooperation in upper secondary vocational music education leading to basic qualification. The starting point is to examine students’ and professional musicians’ action processes in workshops based on a new kind of cooperation in on-the-job learning and to evaluate their suitability to arranging on-the-job learning (cf. Guile & Griffiths, 2001). The original publications are joined by the framework of sociocultural learning (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998; 2009).

The purpose of this research is to add understanding about realizing work-life cooperation and learning produced in workshop action in the education of musicians. The pedagogical purpose is to open paths to planning and availing of problem-based learning in on-the-job method which adds to the learner’s involvement (Andreasen & Nielsen, 2013; Illeris, 2011; Prince & Felder, 2006).

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