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Maria Westvall
Maria Westvall is a senior lecturer in music education at the School of Music, Theatre and Art at Örebro University, Sweden. She has recently concluded the research project ‘The learning musician: A study of military musicians and their musical and educational development during a life-span musicianship’, financed by The Swedish Research Council. She is currently working with various research projects within the area of intercultural and multicultural music education, nationally as well as internationally, as well as with the multidisciplinary project funded by The Swedish Foundation for ‘Humanities and social sciences: Music, identity, and multiculturalism: A study of the role of music in ethnic-based associations’, which she is also directs. Maria Westvall has published on various topics within the area of music education in scientific journals such as Music Education Research, British Journal of Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Música em perspectiva, Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education, Nordic Research in Music Education and the Finnish Journal of Music Education.