Research outputs

Scholarly book chapters

Timonen, V. & Tuladhar, R. (2024). Heritage on Stage. Music education lessons from Finnish and Nepali folk musicians. In T.O Rakena, C. Hall, A. Preston & D. Johnson (eds) Decolonizing and Indigenizing Music Education: First Peoples leading Research and Practice. Routledge.

ISBN 9781032265766  

Timonen, V. & Kastinen, A. (2023). Kansansoittajat tulevaisuuden musiikkikasvatuksen suunnannäyttäjinä [Folk musicians and singers as pioneers of culturally sustainable and educational music teaching]. In H. Partti & M.-L. Juntunen (eds) Musiikkikasvatus muutoksessa [Changing Music Education]. DocMus Research Publications. University of the Arts Helsinki.

https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-329-321-2 

Timonen V., Juntunen ML., Westerlund H. (2021). The Politics of Reflexivity in Music Teachers’ Intercultural Dialogue. In: Kallio A.A., Westerlund H., Karlsen S., Marsh K., Sæther E. (eds) The Politics of Diversity in Music Education. Landscapes: The Arts, Aesthetics, and Education, vol 29. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65617-1_4

Timonen, V., Houmann, A., Saether, E. (2020). The reinvented music teacher-researcher in the making: Conducting educational development through intercultural collaboration. In Westerlund,H., Karlsen, S., Partti, H. (eds) Visions for intercultural music teacher education. Springer (pp.101-114). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21029-8_7

Treacy D.S., Timonen V., Kallio A. A. & Shah, I. (2019). Imagining Beyond Ends-in-view: The Ethics of Assessment as Valuation in Nepali Music Education. In D.J. Elliott, M. Silvermann & G. McPhearson (eds), Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190265182.013.33

Refereed journal articles

Timonen, V. (2023). Yhteistoiminnallinen ammatillinen oppiminen musiikin korkea-asteen koulutuksen kehitystyön mahdollistajana. [Collaborative professional learning as a changing force in higher music education] Finnish Journal of Music Education, 1(26), 57- 72.

Westerlund, H., Karlsen, S., Kallio, A. A., Treacy, D. S., Miettinen, L., Timonen, V., Gluschankof, C., Ehrlich, A., & Shah, I. B. (2021). Visions for intercultural music teacher education in complex societies. Research Studies in MusicEducation. https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103X211032490

Timonen, V. (2021). Co-constructing an intercultural professional learning community in music education: Lessons from a Nepali and Finnish collaboration. Nordic Research in Music Education, 2(1), 161–186. https://doi.org/10.23865/nrme.v2.3028

Invited keynote and speaker addresses

Timonen, V. & Palanchoke, P. 2024, July. Transition pathways towards gender inclusion in the changing musical landscapes of Nepal. Paper presented as part of the ICH Academy, Kaustinen, Finland.

Timonen, V. 2024, June.  Kansainvälinen koulutus- ja tutkimusyhteistyö ja kansanmusiikki [The potentials of International education and research collaboration for folk music] . Paper presented at the Kansanmusiikki-instituutti 50-vuotta -juhlaseminaari, Kaustinen, Finland.

Timonen, V. 2023, March. Keynote: Contemporising the roots. Paper presented at the Confluence conference at the Kathmandu University in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Timonen, V. 2022, July. Keynote: Cultural sustainability in and through formal (music)education. Paper presented in Non-formal music education and Intangible Cultural Heritage conference in Kaustinen, Finland.

Timonen, V. 2021, September. Past and present, teaching Finnish traditional music at the Sibelius Academy. Paper presented at László Lajtha International Folk Music Conference 4.9.2021 in Martonvásár, Hungary.

Timonen, V. 2019. Participant in the keynote ‘Self-reflexivity in and through

intercultural professional collaboration in music education’ with Heidi Westerlund, Danielle Treacy, Riju Tuladhar, John Shrestha, Iman Shah in the 2nd South Asia International Society for Music Education Conference, Kathmandu, November 4–6,2019.

Refereed conference papers

Timonen, V. 2024, February. Heritage education and sustainable development. Paper presented in The Sibelius Academy Folk Music Department 40 years Jubilee Symposium: Folk music, Memory Institutions and the Politics and Practices of Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference in Helsinki, Finland.

Timonen, V. 2023, October. Amplifying Heritage: Co-constructing sustainable future in and through music education. Paper presented in xvi Cultural Diversity in Music Education Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

Timonen, V. & Kastinen, A. 2023, June.Politics of heritage music in formal education: Lessons from ‘Runosong culture’ to educational and culturally sustainable music teaching and learning. Paper presented in Diversity of Music Heritage Conference in Kaustinen, Finland.

Timonen, V. 2023, January. Kansanmusiikin koulutus aineettoman kulttuuriperinnön yhteisönä? [Folk music education as intangible heritage community?] Paper presented in V Kansanmusiikin tutkijoiden symposium, SKS, Helsinki.

Timonen, V. 2022, July. The troubling narratives of “Finnish” Folk Music at the basic education. Paper presented in ISME World Conference, Brisbane, Australia (online).

Timonen, V., Tuladhar, R. 2022, July. Heritage on Stage: Co-constructing Future Professionalism in and from Traditional Music. Paper presented at Kaustinen Folk Music Festival lecture series, Kaustinen, Finland.

Timonen, V., Tuladhar, R. 2021, November. Heritage on Stage: Preliminary findings. Paper presented at ISME South Asia Conference 24.11.2021. Colombo (Online).

Timonen, V. 2021, November. Yhteistoiminnallisen oppimisen käytänteet koulutuksen kehittämistyön moottorina. Paper presented at Mukaan! Music Education seminar 18.11.2021 in Tampere, Finland.

Timonen, V. 2021, September. Collaborative learning in intercultural music teacher community. Paper presented at 12th Biennial Conference of Comparative Education Society of Asia (CESA). 25.9.2021 Kathmandu, Nepal (Online).

Timonen, V. 2020, October. Next Generation of Folk Music Education. With Miklos Both (Hungary) and Yuriy Rybak (Ukraine). Paper presented at WOMEX conference. Online (Budapest).

Timonen, V. 2019, November. Experiences from a collaborative learning process in intercultural music teacher community. Paper presented at ISME South-Asia Regional conference, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Timonen, V, & Tuladhar, R. 2019, June. Boundary crossing in an intercultural learning environment. Dialogical reflections between Nepali and Finnish music teacher-researchers. Paper presented at Cultural Diversity in Music Education (CDIME) conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Timonen, V. & Tuladhar, R. 2018, October. Equal accessibility through international capacity building -Experiences from Nepali-Finnish collaboration. Paper presented at World Music Expo (WOMEX) conference, Las Palmas, Spain

Timonen, V. 2018, July. Increasing intercultural competences in music teacher education through reflexivity. Lessons from a collaborative project between Nepali and Finnish music teachers. Paper presented at the International Society for Music Education 33rd (ISME) World Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan.

Timonen, V. 2018, July. Challenging a Finnish folk musician’s professional self: Artistic and pedagogical transformations in Nepal. Paper presented at the Music in Schools and Teacher Education Commission (MISTEC), Prague, Czech Republic.

Timonen, V. 2018, January. Towards educational development through intercultural collaboration. Local as a vehicle for global. Paper presented at the Pedagogies, Practices and the Future of Folk Music in Higher Education conference, Glasgow, Scotland.

Timonen, V. 2017, November. Reinventing music teacher educators through intercultural collaboration and program development. Paper presented at the ISME South Asia Regional Conference, Bangalore, India.

Timonen, V., Juntunen, M.-L. & Westerlund, H. 2017, March-April. Colonialism or empowerment? Exploring teacher reflexivity in a Nepalese music school context. Paper presented at the Cultural Diversity in Music Education XIII (CDIME) Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Timonen, V., Shah, I. & Partti, H. 2016, July. Towards educational development through intercultural collaboration: Co-creating the ‘third space’ in music teacher education in Finland and Nepal. Paper presented at the International Society for Music Education 32nd (ISME) World Conference, Glasgow, Scotland.

Timonen, V. 2015, June. Co-creating music teacher education in Nepal. Paper presented at the Cultural Diversity in Music Education XII (CDIME) Conference, Helsinki, Finland.

Shah, I., Treacy, D. S. & Timonen, V. 2015, June. Assessment as manifestations of culturally constructed conceptions of knowledge and values in music education: Challenges for envisioning practices in Nepalese schools. Paper presented at the Cultural Diversity in Music Education XII (CDIME) Conference, Helsinki, Finland.