Perspectives on Music, Education, and Diversity: A Festschrift Honoring Patricia Shehan Campbell (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031827365)

David G. Hebert, Ph.D., is a tenured full Professor of Music with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, as well as Honorary Professor with the Education University of Hong Kong and Affiliated Professor with University of the Faroe Islands and Kyambogo University (Uganda). He is a Board Member of the International Society for Music Education and incoming Chair of the SEM Historical Ethnomusicology Section. He also manages the state-funded Nordic Network for Music Education, which coordinates activities across Nordic and Baltic states. He is a frequent keynote speaker and editorial board member of several research journals. An editor or author of ten previous books, he has served on doctoral committees for universities in 15 countries and has grant funding for co-development of new doctoral programs in China and in Uganda.

Chee-Hoo Lum is associate professor of music education with the Visual & Performing Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the Coordinator of the NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE). CARE is also a member of the UNESCO UNITWIN: Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development. Chee-Hoo's research interests include examining issues towards identity, cultural diversity and multiculturalism, technology and globalization

in arts education; children's musical cultures; creativity and improvisation; and elementary music methods. He is currently on the editorial board of RSME (Research Studies in Music Education) and IJMEC (International Journal of Music in Early Childhood. He is a board member of APSMER (Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research) and was on the board of ISME (International Society for Music Education) from 2016-2018. He has previously been the co-editor of IJME (International Journal of Music Education) from 2014-2020 and an associate editor with IJEA (International Journal of Education and the Arts) as well as on the editorial board of JRME (Journal of Research in Music Education). Chee-Hoo has published four edited books: 1) Contextualized Practices in Arts Education: An International Dialogue on Singapore (Springer); 2) Musical Childhoods of Asia and The Pacific; 3) Arts Education and Cultural Diversity: Policies, Research, Practices and Critical Perspectives (Springer); 4) The Artground Ecology: Engaging Children in Arts and Play Experiences (Springer); and four co-authored academic books: 1) Teaching Living Legends: Professional Development and Lessons for the 21st Century Music Educator (Springer); 2) Semionauts of Tradition: Music, Culture & Identity in Singapore (Springer); 3) World Music Pedagogy: School-Community Intersections, 4) Reimagining Singapore: Self and Society in Contemporary Art (in press), school textbooks, academic book chapters, refereed journal articles and made numerous conference presentations at local and international settings. He has also successfully garnered a number of grant funding research projects (Tier 1 and Tier 2) through NIE OER, NIE AcRF, the National Arts Council and Mendaki of Singapore.