Arts Education and Cultural Diversity: Policies, Research, Practices and Critical Perspectives

Chee-Hoo Lum is an Associate Professor of Music Education in the Visual & Performing Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the Head of the UNESCO-NIE Centre for Arts Research in Education, part of a region-wide network of observatories stemming from the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Action Plan. In 2017, Chee-Hoo began to serve as coordinator of the UNESCO UNITWIN network for Arts Education Research for Cultural Diversity and Sustainability Development. His research interests include examining issues related to arts and arts education towards identity, cultural diversity and multiculturalism, technology and globalization in music education; children's musical cultures; creativity and improvisation; and professional development of arts practitioners and arts teachers within the spheres of early childhood and elementary schools.

Dr Ernst Wagner studied visual arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich; he also holds a seconddegree and a PhD in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Munich. Ernst has been a teacher for visual arts at secondary schools and has been extensively involved with NGOs, including InSEA. He also worked for the Bavarian Ministry of Education for six years (responsible for art education in Bavaria), and represented Germany at the 1st UNESCO-World Conference in Arts Education in Lisbon, Portugal 2006. After working at the Institute for School Quality and Research in Education in Munich and as a lecturer and executive coordinator at the UNESCO-Chair in Arts and Culture in Education at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he is currently a senior researcher, lecturer and project leader at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.