Music, Education, and Religion

Alexis Anja Kallio is a music education researcher at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, working as part of the Global Visions through Mobilizing Networks: Co-Developing Intercultural Music Teacher Education in Finland, Israel and Nepal project. She is co-editor of the Nordic Yearbook of Music Education Research.

Philip Alperson is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is editor of What is Music?, The Philosophy of the Visual Arts, and Diversity and Community and past editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Heidi Westerlund is Professor of Music Education at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. She currently leads two large-scale research projects, The Arts as Public Service: Strategic Steps Towards Equality (ArtsEqual), and Global Visions through Mobilizing Networks: Co-Developing Intercultural Music Teacher Education in Finland, Israel and Nepal. She is co-editor of the book, Collaborative Learning in Higher Music Education, and Editor-in-chief of the Finnish Journal of Music Education.