1st Edition

Music Schools in Changing Societies How Collaborative Professionalism Can Transform Music Education

Edited By Michaela Hahn, Cecilia Björk, Heidi Westerlund Copyright 2024
234 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Music Schools in Changing Societies addresses the need to understand instrumental and vocal pedagogy beyond the individual sphere of teacher–student interactions and psychological phenomena, focusing instead on the wider sociocultural, spatial, and institutional contexts of music education. Viewing music education through the perspective of collaboration, the book focuses on the context of... Read more

Introduction: A collaborative journey

Michaela Hahn, Cecilia Björk, and Heidi Westerlund

1 Music schools as forerunners towards collaborative professionalism

Heidi Westerlund, Michaela Hahn, and Cecilia Björk

PART I: Collaborative teaching and learning

2 Children as collaborators in music schools: Locating student voice in professional landscapes

Tuulia Tuovinen

3 Designing a collaborative micro-environment for flute beginners in Slovenian music schools

Ana Kavčič Pucihar And Branka Rotar Pance

4 Enhancing professionalism through collaboration between music schools and a university

Cecilia Björk

PART II: Music schools reaching out: Institutional, cross-sectoral, and teacher collaboration

5 Pushing institutional boundaries: An educational governance perspective on music education pathways through music school, Musikgymnasium, and conservatory

Michaela Hahn

6 Ethno gatherings: Possibilities for meaningful collaborations across the formal and non-formal continuum

Ana Čorić

7 Institutional collaboration creating new spaces for young people’s musical authorship: The case of G Songlab

Anna Kuoppamäki

8 Interschool collaboration enriches students’ musical education: Insights from a Greek–German transnational project

Theodora Tsimpouri And Anthoula Koliadi-Tiliakou

9 How social innovations can enable socially just spatial politics and collaborative professionalism in music education: The case of AÏCO at the Conservatoire de Lyon

Martin Galmiche, Heidi Westerlund, Tuulikki Laes, And Lauri Väkevä

PART III: The impact of shifting cultural and educational landscapes: Countrywide systems and policy-driven collaboration

10 "No kulturskole is an island": Insights from a collaborative development project in three Nordic countries

Anders Rønningen

11 Collaborating for research, researching for collaboration: On mapping nationwide extracurricular music education in Switzerland

Marc-Antoine Camp And Bastian Hodapp

12 From collaborative subsidiarity to professionally recognised collaboration: A way forward for instrumental and vocal music education in Ireland

Dorothy Conaghan

13 The "right to all possible paths": Alliances and collaboration between music schools, the education system, and cultural institutions for the horizontal extension of the arts and arts education practice

Enric Aragonès Jové

14 Multicentric policy practice: Collaboration as policy enactment in Sweden’s Art and Music Schools

Adriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg And Patrick Schmidt

15 On the significance of collaboration: A personal perspective

Peter Renshaw

Afterword: Present and future prospects of collaborative professionalism in music schools

Michaela Hahn, Cecilia Björk, And Heidi Westerlund

Biography

Michaela Hahn was a professor for music school research at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and CEO of the Music and Art School Management in Lower Austria. Her research interests centre on music schools’ organisational development, music education system landscapes, and collaborative learning.

Cecilia Björk is an assistant professor (Tenure Track) for music school research at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Her research interests include music education in music schools and compulsory schools, the philosophy of music education, and ethical issues in music education and research.

Heidi Westerlund is a professor at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. Her research interests include higher music education, teacher education, collaborative learning, cultural diversity, and democracy in music education. She is the co-editor of Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education (2021).