It is a
pleasure to be visiting Spain (first Madrid, and then on to Granada, and finally Malaga)
as my first research trip in the RESUPERES
project, an EU Erasmus Plus initiative for interdisciplinary and comparative
study of resilience in higher education.
We look forward
to developing a clearer understanding of how the Norwegian and arts components
of the project will integrate with the rest of this initiative with partners in
Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Serbia.
It was a pleasure to
serve this week on the PhD examining committee for Dr. Miwa Chiba at University
of Luxembourg. Chiba’s dissertation is titled Comparing Inclusive (Music)
Education in Luxembourg and Japan, a study that contributes to the
fields of inclusive education, comparative education, and music education
policy studies. My role was as the external examiner along with Kanae Nishioka
from Kyoto University. Chiba's dissertation supervisor was sociologist of education Justin Powell, and other committee members included Damien Sagrillo and Christina Siry.
University of Luxembourg is a multilingual public research university with a growing profile, and its Belval campus features unique architecture built around the impressive historic structures of what had been Europe’s largest center for steel manufacture.
Dr. Chiba has articles
appearing in various research journals as well as a chapter in the book Comparative
and Decolonial Studies in Philosophy of Education.
Congratulations to Dr.
Miwa Chiba!
