Editorial Team

Guro Gravem Johansen
Editor-in-chief
Professor of Music Education
Ingesund Music College, University of Karlstad, Sweden
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Guro Gravem Johansen is a jazz singer, choir conductor and Professor of Music Education at Ingesund Music College, University of Karlstad. Her research interests cover instrumental practising, learning and teaching within jazz and improvised music, from beginning levels to higher education, sociocultural theory and knowledge theory. She has published a number of peer reviewed articles in international journals, and was the first editor of the anthology Expanding the Space for Improvisation pedagogy: A Trans-Disciplinary Approach (Routledge, 2019). She is the author of the book Children’s guided participation in jazz improvisation: A case study of the ‘Improbasen’ learning centre (Routledge, 2021), based on a two-year ethnographic study. From February 2019 to December 2020 Johansen lead two committees revising the Norwegian national curriculum for the Music, dance and drama program in upper secondary school [Fagfornyelsen], on behalf of The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training.

Sanna Kivijärvi
Co-Editor
Senior lecturer
Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, and Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
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Sanna Kivijärvi is a senior lecturer at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, and Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, where she oversees a multidisciplinary master’s degree programme, Creativity and Arts in Social and Health Fields. Her academic interests combine music education, sociology of the arts, and the study of cultural well-being. She has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on accessibility, equity, and other policy issues in the Finnish education system and beyond, and currently, she serves as a Co-PI in international research and development projects (e.g., advancement of pedagogical skills for in-service orchestra musicians). More broadly, she is interested in educational and research designs that emphasize critical perspectives and philosophical lenses to curriculum and policy development, and teachers’ ethical and reflexive practice.

Marie-Helene Zimmerman Nilsson
Co-Editor
Associate Professor
University West, Sweden 
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Marie-Helene Zimmerman Nilsson, PhD in Music Education, is Associate Professor in Education at University West, Sweden. Her research in music education primarily includes music teaching and music teachers in preschool, interdisciplinary coteaching in music and drama in higher education and musicianship and personal knowledge management. Within the general pedagogical field, her research comprises such areas as immigrant women in higher education, interprofessional collaboration in preschool, and collaboration in practicum in teacher education. Her research perspectives include music didactic perspectives, discourse analysis, and post-human perspectives. She has been a research scholar at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and at University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 2018, she was appointed research environment leader, and she also currently leads the Child and Youth research environment at University West.

Danielle Shannon Treacy
Co-Editor
Lecturer
Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
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Danielle Shannon Treacy is a researcher and lecturer at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. Her interdisciplinary research explores the potential of music and music education to shape more just future societies within the boundaries of what the earth can sustain. She has contributed to understandings of the ethical and methodological deliberations involved in intercultural music teacher education policy, practice, and research, and collaborative learning and reflective practice in higher arts education. She has published peer-reviewed international journal articles and book chapters; presented her work at numerous international conferences; and coordinated, organised and served on the scientific committee for international music education conferences. At the university level she currently teaches in the Doctoral School of Music Education, Jazz and Folk Music (MuTri) and the Global Music and Arts Management Departments.

 

 

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