It is a pleasure
to announce that our book Comparative and Decolonial Studies in Philosophy
of Education has just been published, and is now available as a download
via SpringerLink.
Here is a
link to the website for that: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0139-5
This book
is designed to stimulate alternative ways of understanding the nature and value
of education based on historically-informed awareness of ideas from parts of the
world that experienced colonization.
I look
forward to giving a keynote speech soon for the Arts Education Symposium
at the Technical University of Kenya. My title is Rediscovering the
Wonderment of Arts in a Fragile World, and it will address some of the main
themes and lessons learned from some recent research and development projects.
Below is a poster for this event, and here is a
link for more information about the symposium: https://tukenya.ac.ke/eap-symposium
Kenya is a
nation with a rich artistic heritage and innovative work in arts education
fields, so it is exciting to have this opportunity to interact with scholars
and educators there, but this keynote speech will necessarily be presented through videoconference.
In the speech,
I will describe some concepts and examples from my latest
book, a recent article,
and some current and ongoing projects (e.g. CABUTE, Music
Talks, NNME,
MusiPæd,
HK-Global
Competence, Sympathetic
Resonance, etc.).
Below are
links to some other keynote speeches I have recently presented in Uganda
and China, as well as the poster for the event in Kenya:
https://sociomusicology.blogspot.com/2022/09/keynote-speech-for-national-conference.html
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!
We are happy to announce that a unique doctoral
course PhD
911 Non-Western Educational Philosophy and Policy
will be offered in the late spring: May 4-12, 2023. This 5-ECTS (fully
accredited) course is presented entirely online, free of charge through Western
Norway University of Applied Sciences, to qualified PhD students in Norway and around
the world.
Offered for only a few years so far, the course already has a good record for producing publications. The very first cohort of this course (2020-2021)
developed a special
issue of a refereed journal, and the second cohort (2021-2022)
collaborated with the first cohort to produce a book together on Springer
press (see below). The 2023 cohort will also be encouraged to develop a
scholarly publication together.
Do you know a doctoral student in education, philosophy, area studies, or a related field, who might be interested in joining this course? The application deadline is 23 March 2023.
Please share with colleagues!
Here are links for more information:
https://www.hvl.no/en/studies-at-hvl/study-programmes/courses/phd911
https://sociomusicology.blogspot.com/2022/07/comparative-and-decolonial-studies-in.html
https://www.amazon.com/Comparative-Decolonial-Studies-Philosophy-Education/dp/9819901383/
After some delays with the press, our book
on intercultural music projects will soon be formatted and published: Shared Listenings: Methods for Transcultural Music Performance and
Research. In less than two weeks, the final version will be returned
to Cambridge University Press.
Co-authored by Stefan Ostersjo, David
Hebert, Thanh Thuy Nguyen, and Henrik Frisk, this book is an outcome of the Musical
Transformations project in Vietnam. We received unusually
positive feedback from two reviewers, and we are confident the book will be valuable
for musicians, composers, and researchers interested in intercultural music
projects.
Click HERE
for more information. Note: The above image is of a Vietnamese "moon lute" collected during the project, but is not the actual book cover. [UPDATE: Below is the actual cover.]
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UPDATE: This event has been postponed.
We are pleased
to announce that Professor Emily Achieng’ Akuno will be giving a guest lecture on
arts leadership at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences on 22 March
2023.
Dr. Akuno is Professor of Music Education at the Technical University of Kenya, in Nairobi, and has recently served as Deputy Vice Rector for the Co-operative University of Kenya.
In recent years she has held roles as President of the
International Society for Music Education and President of the International
Music Council (UNESCO). Her book Music Education in Africa: Concept, Process, and Practice
was published by Routledge in 2019.
Here are
links for more information about Prof. Akuno:
https://www.musicinafrica.net/directory/emily-achieng-akuno
https://staff.tukenya.ac.ke/?r=portal/profile/public&id=354
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1446-3893
