Singapore

Lum Chee-Hoo is associate professor of music education with the Visual & Performing Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the Head of UNESCO-NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education (CARE), part of a region-wide network of Observatories stemming from the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Action Plan. Chee-Hoo’s research interests include issues towards identity, cultural diversity and multiculturalism, technology and globalization in music education; children’s musical cultures; creativity and improvisation; and elementary music methods. He is currently the Co-Editor of IJME (International Journal of Music Education) and on the editorial board of JRME (Journal of Research in Music Education), and RSME (Research Studies in Music Education). He is a board member of APSMER (Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research) and was on the board of ISME (International Society for Music Education) from 2016-2018. He has previously been an associate editor with IJEA (International Journal of Education and the Arts). Chee-Hoo has published three edited books: (1) Contextualized Practices in Arts Education: An International Dialogue on Singapore;2) Musical Childhoods of Asia and The Pacific); 3) Arts Education and Cultural Diversity: Policies, Research, Practices and Critical Perspectives; three co-authored academic books, Teaching Living Legends: Professional development and lessons for the 21^stcentury music educator; Semionauts of Tradition: Music, Culture & Identity in Singapore; World Music Pedagogy: School-Community Intersections, school textbooks, academic book chapters, referred journal articles and made numerous conference presentations at local and international settings. He has also successfully garnered a number of grant funding research projects (Tier 1 and Tier 2) through NIE OER, NIE AcRF, the National Arts Council and Mendaki of Singapore.