Another book to be
published soon . . .
Advancing
Music Education in Northern Europe (edited by David Hebert and Torunn Bakken Hauge; Routledge, in
press) tells the story of a unique organization that has contributed in
profound ways to the professional development of music teachers in the Nordic
and Baltic nations. At the same time, the book offers reflections on how music
education, and approaches to the training of music teachers, have changed
across recent decades, a period of significant innovations. In a time where
international partnerships appear to be threatened by a recent resurgence in
protectionism and nationalism, this book also more generally demonstrates the
value of formalized international cooperation in the sphere of higher
education. The setting for the discussion, Northern Europe, is a region
arguably of great importance to music education for a number of reasons, seen
for instance in Norway’s ranking as the ‘happiest nation on earth’; the
well-known success of Finland’s schools in international-comparative measures
of student achievement; how Sweden has grappled with its recent experience as
‘Europe’s top recipient of asylum seekers per capita’ and Estonia’s national
identity as a country born from a ‘Singing Revolution’, to name but a few
examples. The contributors chronicle how the Nordic Network for Music Education
was founded and developed, document its impact, and demonstrate how the eight
nations involved in this network – Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland,
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – are making unique contributions of global
significance to the field of music education.
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