- Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music
Education:
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Ph.D.
, University of Calgary, 1976
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M.M.
, Andrews University, 1970
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B.A.
, University of Newcastle, 1967
Background:
As a teacher of graduate courses in the foundations of music education, Estelle Jorgensen also serves as editor for Philosophy of Music Education Review, and is the founding chair of Philosophy SRIG of MENC. She is the author of In Search of Music Education (University of Illinois Press, 1997), Transforming Music Education (Indiana University Press, 2003), and frequent contributor to leading research journals in music education internationally. She is an author and speaker on a broad array of themes in the philosophy of music education.
Jorgensen taught music in the grade schools in Canada and at McGill University, Montreal, and has lectured in Sweden, Finland, the United Kingdom, and Australia. She has been a leader of and contributor to five international symposia in the philosophy of music education held in Bloomington, Toronto, Canada, Los Angeles, and Birmingham, U.K.
Professor Jorgensen is a fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society and holds an honorary doctorate in music from Andrews University.
Contact Information:
(812) 855-4430
jorgense AT
indiana DOT
edu
Simon Center, M145F
Related Information:
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http://info.music.indiana.edu/sb/page/normal/252.html
