Michaela Hahn was a professor for music school research at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and CEO of the Music and Art School Management in Lower Austria. Her research interests centre on music schools’ organisational development, music education system landscapes, and collaborative learning.Cecilia Björk is an assistant professor (Tenure Track) for music school research at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Her research interests include music education in music schools and compulsory schools, the philosophy of music education, and ethical issues in music education and research.Heidi Westerlund is a professor at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. Her research interests include higher music education, teacher education, collaborative learning, cultural diversity, and democracy in music education. She is the co-editor of Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education (2021).

• ContentsIntroduction: A collaborative journeyHeidi Westerlund, Cecilia Björk & Michaela Hahn---1. Music schools as forerunners towards collaborative professionalismHeidi Westerlund, Michaela Hahn & Cecilia Björk---Section I: Collaborative teaching and learning2. Children as collaborators in music schools: Locating student voice in professional landscapesTuulia Tuovinen3. Designing a collaborative micro-environment for flute beginners in Slovenian music schoolsAna Kavčič Pucihar & Branka Rotar Pance4. Enhancing professionalism through collaboration between music schools and a universityCecilia Björk---Section II: Music schools reaching out: institutional, cross-sectoral, and teacher collaboration5. Pushing institutional boundaries: An educational governance perspective on music education pathways through music school, Musikgymnasium, and conservatoryMichaela Hahn6. ETHNO Gatherings: Possibilities for meaningful collaborations across the formal and non-formal continuumAna Čorić7. Institutional collaboration creating new spaces for young people’s musical authorship: The case of G SonglabAnna Kuoppamäki8. Interschool collaboration enriches students’ musical education: Insights from a Greek-German transnational projectTheodora Tsimpouri & Anthoula Koliadi-Tiliakou9. How social innovations can enable socially just spatial politics and collaborative professionalism in music education: The case of AÏCO at the Conservatoire de LyonMartin Galmiche, Heidi Westerlund, Tuulikki Laes & Lauri Väkevä---Section III: The impact of shifting cultural and educational landscapes: countrywide systems and policy-driven collaboration10. “No kulturskole is an island”. Insights from a collaborative development project in three Nordic countriesAnders Rønningen11. Collaborating for research, researching for collaboration: On mapping nationwide extracurricular music education in SwitzerlandMarc-Antoine Camp & Bastian Hodapp12. From collaborative subsidiarity to professionally recognised collaboration: A way forward for instrumental and vocal music education in IrelandDorothy Conaghan13. The “right to all possible paths”: Alliances and collaboration between music schools, the education system, and cultural institutions for the horizontal extension of the arts and arts education practiceEnric Aragonès Jové14. Multicentric policy practice: Collaboration as policy enactment in Sweden’s Art and Music SchoolsAdriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg & Patrick Schmidt---15. On the significance of collaboration: A personal perspectivePeter Renshaw---Present and future prospects of collaborative professionalism in music schoolsMichaela Hahn, Cecilia Björk & Heidi WesterlundLists of FiguresList of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIndex

Michaela Hahn was a professor for music school research at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and CEO of the Music and Art School Management in Lower Austria. Her research interests centre on music schools’ organisational development, music education system landscapes, and collaborative learning.Cecilia Björk is an assistant professor (Tenure Track) for music school research at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Her research interests include music education in music schools and compulsory schools, the philosophy of music education, and ethical issues in music education and research.Heidi Westerlund is a professor at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. Her research interests include higher music education, teacher education, collaborative learning, cultural diversity, and democracy in music education. She is the co-editor of Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education (2021).

• ContentsIntroduction: A collaborative journeyHeidi Westerlund, Cecilia Björk & Michaela Hahn---1. Music schools as forerunners towards collaborative professionalismHeidi Westerlund, Michaela Hahn & Cecilia Björk---Section I: Collaborative teaching and learning2. Children as collaborators in music schools: Locating student voice in professional landscapesTuulia Tuovinen3. Designing a collaborative micro-environment for flute beginners in Slovenian music schoolsAna Kavčič Pucihar & Branka Rotar Pance4. Enhancing professionalism through collaboration between music schools and a universityCecilia Björk---Section II: Music schools reaching out: institutional, cross-sectoral, and teacher collaboration5. Pushing institutional boundaries: An educational governance perspective on music education pathways through music school, Musikgymnasium, and conservatoryMichaela Hahn6. ETHNO Gatherings: Possibilities for meaningful collaborations across the formal and non-formal continuumAna Čorić7. Institutional collaboration creating new spaces for young people’s musical authorship: The case of G SonglabAnna Kuoppamäki8. Interschool collaboration enriches students’ musical education: Insights from a Greek-German transnational projectTheodora Tsimpouri & Anthoula Koliadi-Tiliakou9. How social innovations can enable socially just spatial politics and collaborative professionalism in music education: The case of AÏCO at the Conservatoire de LyonMartin Galmiche, Heidi Westerlund, Tuulikki Laes & Lauri Väkevä---Section III: The impact of shifting cultural and educational landscapes: countrywide systems and policy-driven collaboration10. “No kulturskole is an island”. Insights from a collaborative development project in three Nordic countriesAnders Rønningen11. Collaborating for research, researching for collaboration: On mapping nationwide extracurricular music education in SwitzerlandMarc-Antoine Camp & Bastian Hodapp12. From collaborative subsidiarity to professionally recognised collaboration: A way forward for instrumental and vocal music education in IrelandDorothy Conaghan13. The “right to all possible paths”: Alliances and collaboration between music schools, the education system, and cultural institutions for the horizontal extension of the arts and arts education practiceEnric Aragonès Jové14. Multicentric policy practice: Collaboration as policy enactment in Sweden’s Art and Music SchoolsAdriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg & Patrick Schmidt---15. On the significance of collaboration: A personal perspectivePeter Renshaw---Present and future prospects of collaborative professionalism in music schoolsMichaela Hahn, Cecilia Björk & Heidi WesterlundLists of FiguresList of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIndex

Michaela Hahn was a professor for music school research at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and CEO of the Music and Art School Management in Lower Austria. Her research interests centre on music schools’ organisational development, music education system landscapes, and collaborative learning.Cecilia Björk is an assistant professor (Tenure Track) for music school research at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Her research interests include music education in music schools and compulsory schools, the philosophy of music education, and ethical issues in music education and research.Heidi Westerlund is a professor at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. Her research interests include higher music education, teacher education, collaborative learning, cultural diversity, and democracy in music education. She is the co-editor of Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education (2021).

• ContentsIntroduction: A collaborative journeyHeidi Westerlund, Cecilia Björk & Michaela Hahn---1. Music schools as forerunners towards collaborative professionalismHeidi Westerlund, Michaela Hahn & Cecilia Björk---Section I: Collaborative teaching and learning2. Children as collaborators in music schools: Locating student voice in professional landscapesTuulia Tuovinen3. Designing a collaborative micro-environment for flute beginners in Slovenian music schoolsAna Kavčič Pucihar & Branka Rotar Pance4. Enhancing professionalism through collaboration between music schools and a universityCecilia Björk---Section II: Music schools reaching out: institutional, cross-sectoral, and teacher collaboration5. Pushing institutional boundaries: An educational governance perspective on music education pathways through music school, Musikgymnasium, and conservatoryMichaela Hahn6. ETHNO Gatherings: Possibilities for meaningful collaborations across the formal and non-formal continuumAna Čorić7. Institutional collaboration creating new spaces for young people’s musical authorship: The case of G SonglabAnna Kuoppamäki8. Interschool collaboration enriches students’ musical education: Insights from a Greek-German transnational projectTheodora Tsimpouri & Anthoula Koliadi-Tiliakou9. How social innovations can enable socially just spatial politics and collaborative professionalism in music education: The case of AÏCO at the Conservatoire de LyonMartin Galmiche, Heidi Westerlund, Tuulikki Laes & Lauri Väkevä---Section III: The impact of shifting cultural and educational landscapes: countrywide systems and policy-driven collaboration10. “No kulturskole is an island”. Insights from a collaborative development project in three Nordic countriesAnders Rønningen11. Collaborating for research, researching for collaboration: On mapping nationwide extracurricular music education in SwitzerlandMarc-Antoine Camp & Bastian Hodapp12. From collaborative subsidiarity to professionally recognised collaboration: A way forward for instrumental and vocal music education in IrelandDorothy Conaghan13. The “right to all possible paths”: Alliances and collaboration between music schools, the education system, and cultural institutions for the horizontal extension of the arts and arts education practiceEnric Aragonès Jové14. Multicentric policy practice: Collaboration as policy enactment in Sweden’s Art and Music SchoolsAdriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg & Patrick Schmidt---15. On the significance of collaboration: A personal perspectivePeter Renshaw---Present and future prospects of collaborative professionalism in music schoolsMichaela Hahn, Cecilia Björk & Heidi WesterlundLists of FiguresList of ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIndex