Publications

Peer-previewed articles and chapters

 

Biesta, G., Laes, T. & Westerlund, H. (2024, in press). A Manifesto for Transformative Politics in Music Education. In T. Laes, G. Biesta & H. Westerlund (Eds.) The transformative politics of music education. Routledge.

Biesta, G., Laes, T. & Westerlund, H. (2024, in press). Why music education needs transformative politics: Introduction. In T. Laes, G. Biesta & H. Westerlund (Eds.) The transformative politics of music education. Routledge.

Galmiche, M., Westerlund, H., Laes, T., & Väkevä, L. (2024). How social innovations can enable socially just spatial politics and collaborative professionalism in music education: The case of AÏCO at the Conservatoire de Lyon. In M. Hahn, C., Björk & H. Westerlund (Eds.), Music schools in changing societies – How collaborative professionalism can transform music education (pp. 113–130). Routledge.

Laes, T., Thomson, K., Treacy, D. & Westerlund, H. (2024). Towards the ‘swampy lowlands’ of professional practice: Higher music education teachers reflecting on arts-science integration in the Artists for a Sustainable Future course. Diskussion Musikpädagogik [Discussion Music Education]102, 3–10. https://www.junker-verlag.com/dmp-102

Laes. T., Treacy, D. S., & Westerlund, H. (2024). Beyond ‘democracy’: Making space for the educational and political in music education. In J. L. Aróstegui, C. Christophersen, J. Nichols, & K. Matsunobu (Eds.). The SAGE Handbook of School Music Education (pp. 457–472). Sage.

Laes, T. & Westerlund, H. (2024, in press). The transformative politics of music education research: Navigating public scholarship. In T. Laes, G. Biesta & H. Westerlund (Eds.) The transformative politics of music education. Routledge.

Treacy, D. S. (2022). Appreciating situations of breakdown for researcher reflexivity. Action Research, 20(3), 278 - 294. https://doi.org/10.1177/14767503211073083

Westerlund, H. (2023). Kriisien ja epävarmuuksien ajan ekopoliittinen ammatillisuus musiikkikasvatuksessa. [Ecopolitical professionalism in music education in times of crises and insecurities]. In H. Partti & M.-L. Juntunen (Eds.) Musiikkikasvatus muutoksessa [Changing Music Education] (pp. 452–475). Sibelius Academy. University of the Arts Helsinki. 

Westerlund, H. & Odendaal., A. (2024, in press). Expanding the ‘expert gaze’ of music education: Towards a transformative systems view. In T. Laes, G. Biesta & H. Westerlund (Eds.) The transformative politics of music education. Routledge.

Westerlund, H., Treacy, D., Thomson, K. & Odendaal, A. (2024, in press). Music educators as imaginative designers for socially responsible transformation. In T. Laes, G. Biesta & H. Westerlund (Eds.) The transformative politics of music education. Routledge.
 

Other publications

 

Thomson, K. & Treacy, D. S. (2024). Music education, professionalism, and eco-politics: Towards socio-ecological sustainability through changing mental models. Finnish Journal of Music Education, 27(1), 122–125.

Treacy, D. S. (2022). Appreciating situations of breakdown for researcher reflexivity. ARJ article by Danielle Treacy. AR+ Action Research. 

Invited keynotes

 

Laes, T., López-Íñiguez, G. & Westerlund, H. Beyond Advocacy: Engaging with the Political in Music Education’. Collective keynote,  performcd together with K. Thomson, D. Treacy, A. Odendaal and A. Olarte. 36th International Society for Music Education World Conference, Helsinki, University of the Arts Helsinki, 28.7.–2.8.2024.

Westerlund, H. Why should children compose? From ego-logical to eco-logical rationality. Keynote in the European Association for Music in Schools (EAS), 9th ISME European Regional Conference, Lyon University, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France, May 24–27, 2023.

Westerlund, H. & Karlsen, S. What’s at the bottom of the iceberg? A dialogue on mental models and systems change in music and music education professionalism. Joint keynote in the 13th International Society for Philosophy of Music Education (ISPME) Symposium, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway, June 14–16, 2023. 

Conference and seminar presentations

 

Laes, T., Treacy, D. S. & Thomson, K. (2023, May). Artists for a sustainable future: Art-science activism within higher music education. Paper presented at the Music, Research, and Activism conference, University of Helsinki, May 10–12, 2023.

Odendaal, A. [Chair] (2024, July 28 - Aug 2). Ecologically responsible Music Education. International Society for Music Education World Conference, Helsinki.

Thomson, K. & Treacy, D. S. (2021, October). Mapping visions of sustainability in music education. Invited presentation in the Seminar on Social Engagement & the Arts: Participation and Sustainability, Malmö, Sweden.

Treacy, D. S. (Panelist) (2024, July 28 – August 2). Music educators as imaginative ‘designers’ in higher music education: beyond conservatory silos. In T. Laes (chair), Beyond advocacy: Why music education needs transformative politics[Symposium]. 36th International Society for Music Education World Conference (ISME), Helsinki, Finland.

Treacy. D. S. (2022, November). Navigating modernity/coloniality in music education: The case of music in Nepali private schools. Invited paper presented at the Communality & the Arts: Place, Sustainability and Heritage seminar, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, November 8–9.

Treacy, D. S. & Thomson, K. (2022, November). The World in Motion ensemble as a case of imaginative design in music education for transformation. Invited paper presented at the Communality & the Arts: Place, Sustainability and Heritage seminar, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, November 8–9.

Treacy, D. S. & Westerlund, H. (2022, January). Gender exclusion and multicultural discourse: Activism through public pedagogy in Nepali music education. Paper presented at the Gender and Musicianship Study Days, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland, January 24-25.

Westerlund, H. Systems thinking expanding music professionalism. CIPEM – Centre for Research in Music Psychology and Music Education – seminar. Music and Drama Department of the School of Education of the Porto Polytechnic Institute. March, 9, 2024. Porto, Portugal.

Westerlund, H. & Laes, T. Navigating public scholarship in music education research: beyond disciplinary professionalism. Presentation in the Beyond Advocacy: Why Music Education Needs Transformative Politics Symposium led by T. Laes. 36th International Society for Music Education World Conference, Helsinki, University of the Arts Helsinki, 28.7.–2.8.2024.

Westerlund, H. & Odendaal, A. (2024, July 28 - Aug 2).  Expanding mental models in music education: Transformational praxis beyond the expert gaze. In Laes, T. (Chair) Beyond Advocacy: Why Music Education Needs Transformative Politics [Symposium]. International Society for Music Education World Conference, Helsinki. 

Westerlund, H., Treacy, D. S., & Thomson, K. (2023, October). Music teacher education ‘dancing with the systems’: Changing the mental models of sedimented traditions in a conservatory environment. Paper presented at the Cultural Diversity in Music Education conference, North-West University, October 9–11, 2023.