Richard Colwell Author & Editor

Patrick Schmidt is Chair of Music Education at Western University, Canada. His innovative work in policy studies, critical pedagogy, and urban music education is recognized nationally and internationally. He serves in several editorial boards and is widely published in national and international journals. Beyond his scholarly work, Schmidt led several consulting and evaluative projects including recent work for the National Young Arts Foundation, and the New World Symphony in the USA, as well as for the Ministry of Culture and Education in Chile. He co-edited the Oxford Handbook for Social Justice and Music Education. Richard Colwell is Professor Emeritus of Music Education at the University of Illinois and the New England Conservatory of Music. He is the founding editor of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and the Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning. He is also a Guggenheim scholar and a member of MENC's Hall of Fame.