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Ch. 05 - Transforming Music Education Re-Visited: The Significance Of Internationalization And Mentoring, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel

The Road Goes Ever On: Estelle Jorgensen's Legacy in Music Education

This chapter returns to Jorgensen’s 2003 publication Transforming Music Education. Kertz-Welzel revisits significant aspects of transformation in music education which Jorgensen suggests, and which are still important today. The author also emphasizes additional dimensions that are critical in the 21^st century, such as internationalization and mentoring. Through the formation of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education, philosophy of music education was significantly transformed. Internationalization in a respective field is always connected to the engagement of individual researchers who shape it and attract others to become part of it. Therefore, mentoring young scholars is an …