Music Schools in Changing Societies

Contents

Introduction: A collaborative journey

Heidi Westerlund, Cecilia Bjoerk & Michaela Hahn

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1. Music schools as forerunners towards collaborative professionalism

Heidi Westerlund, Michaela Hahn & Cecilia Bjoerk

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Section 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 Kavcic Pucihar & Branka Rotar Pance

4. Enhancing professionalism through collaboration between music schools and a university

Cecilia Bjoerk

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Section 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 Coric

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

Anna Kuoppamaeki

8. Interschool collaboration enriches students' musical education: Insights from a Greek-German transnational project

Theodora Tsimpouri & Anthoula Koliadi-Tiliakou

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

Martin Galmiche, Heidi Westerlund, Tuulikki Laes & Lauri Vaekevae

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Section 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 Ronningen

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

Marc-Antoine Camp & 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 Aragones Jove

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

Adriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg & Patrick Schmidt

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15. On the significance of collaboration: A personal perspective

Peter Renshaw

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Present and future prospects of collaborative professionalism in music schools

Michaela Hahn, Cecilia Bjoerk & Heidi Westerlund

Lists of Figures

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Index