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Chee-Hoo Lum
Chee-Hoo Lum completed his doctorate in Music Education at the University of Washington under an overseas graduate scholarship from NTU-NIE (Nanyang Technological University – National Institute of Education), and had previously been awarded the Lee Kuan Yew and the Association of Nanyang University Graduates gold medals. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music Education at the National Institute of Education, Singapore and is the director 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. He is also an associate editor of the International Journal of Education and the Arts. His primary research interest in music education focuses on children’s musical cultures and their shifting musical identities; the use of media and technology by children, in families and in pedagogy; creativity and improvisation in children’s music; and elementary music methods.