Book presentation Music Schools in Changing Societies: How Collaborative Professionalism can Transform Music Education

Edited by Michaela Hahn, Cecilia Björk and Heidi Westerlund

This publication addresses how music schools as institutions can actively contribute and respond to societal changes through a multi-level collaborative stance, thus broadening the research perspectives in the field towards an understanding of the organisational and systems level functions and responsibilities of music education institutions. The authors suggest that multilevel collaboration is a vital part of how music educators and the schools where they work can respond to wider societal concerns in ways that enhance educational quality. They claim that a wider collaborative turn will enable professionals in the music field to engage in processes of making contemporary societies not just better musically, but better places to live. 
This first research-based international publication on European music schools fills a gap in scholarship by connecting collaborative professionalism with current institutional challenges, It provides research studies, experiences, and perspectives from 21 authors related to collaboration in music schools and instrumental and vocal education in twelve different European countries and contexts.

This event will take place both in the Franz Liszt Hall and online.