About Me

Estelle Jorgensen is Professor Emerita of Music (Music Education) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and University Research Reviewer, Research Methodologist, and Contributing Faculty Member at the Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership, Walden University.  She holds honorary doctorates in music from Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Finland, and Andrews University, U.S.A., and a Ph.D. in Education from University of Calgary, Canada.  Founder of the Philosophy Special Research Interest Group of the National Association for Music Education and co-founder of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education, she has led or contributed to international philosophical symposia in Bloomington, Indiana, USA (1990), Los Angeles, California, USA (1994), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1997), Birmingham, United Kingdom (2000), Lake Forest, Illinois, U.S.A. (2003), London, Ontario (2005), Hamburg, Germany (2007), Helsinki, Finland (2010), New York City, USA (2013), Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2015), Volos, Greece (2017), and London, Ontario (2019).  Editor of the Philosophy of Music Education Review and founder of the Counterpoints: Music and Education book series published by Indiana University Press and now edited by Randall Everett Allsup, and Philosopher-Teacher-Musician: Contemporary Perspectives on Music Education (1993), she is the author of In Search of Music Education (1997), Transforming Music Education (2003), The Art of Teaching Music (2008), Pictures of Music Education (2011), and Values of Music Education (2021), co-editor (with Iris Yob) of Humane Music Education for the Common Good (2020), and numerous articles in leading music education journals internationally and book chapters in essay collections.  

Dissertations

  • 31 dissertations and doctoral documents advised at Indiana University with one awarded the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year in Music Education by the Council for Research in Music Education (1991)
  • 3 dissertations led at Walden University and numerous dissertations as methodologist and university research reviewer.
  • External reviewer of dissertations internationally including University of London, England, University of Western Ontario, Canada, and University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland.

Honors

  • Senior Research Award, National Association for Music Education, 2020.
  • Bernard L. Turner award (for faculty research committee members of the doctoral student winner of the outstanding Ph.D. dissertation, 2017 across all academic fields, Walden University)
  • D. Mus, (honoris causa) from Andrews University, USA and Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland
  • Listings in International Who's Who of Music, Who's Who of American Women, and Who's Who of Education, the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, and Leading Philosophers in the World

Publications

  • 6 solo authored books, 2 edited books and 1 co-edited book,
  • 20 book chapters and 1 book foreword.
  • 65 articles
  • 49 editorials

Talks

  • 73 invited and refereed research presentations at conferences on music and education 
  • 16 panel presentations at conferences on music and education
  • 17 invited research lectures at universities around the world