The Planning Committee—Members of the Symposium

Estelle R. Jorgensen is Professor of Music Education in the School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A. where she teaches graduate courses in the foundations of music education.

Editor of the Philosophy of Music Education Review , founding chair of the Philosophy SRIG of MENC, founding Co-chair of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education,  author of In Search of Music Education  (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997), Transforming Music Education  (Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 2003), and frequent contributor to leading research journals in music education.

Internationally, she has spoken and written about a broad array of themes in the philosophy of music education. Australian born, she has taught music in the school grades in Canada, at McGill University, Montreal, and lectured in Finland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia.

She has led and contributed to five international symposia in the philosophy of music education held in Bloomington, USA (1990), Toronto, Canada (1994), Los Angeles, USA (1997), Birmingham, UK (2000), and Lake Forest, USA (2003). And she will be contributing to the Sixth International Symposium in the Philosophy of Music Education  to be held in Hamburg, Germany, May 2005.  Among the various honors for her contributions to the philosophy of music education, she has been named a fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society, and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in music from Andrews University, USA. 

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