dr. Evert Bisschop Boele

Evert Bisschop Boele is Professor of Arts Education within the Research Centre Art & Society at Hanze University of Applied Sciences.

Rooted in ethnomusicology and music education, Professor Evert Bisschop Boele conducts practice-based research in the field of music and arts education. He does so from a perspective he developed himself: ‘idiocultural music education’. He emphasises that music education helps children develop into the musical personalities they want and are able to be. This is achieved by connecting with each pupil’s individual preferences, making these explicit, and encouraging them to take a step further.

He leads the professorship Arts Education, which consists of lecturer-researchers from the Prins Claus Conservatorium, Minerva Art Academy, School of Education, and the Master of Arts Education at Hanze.

Evert Bisschop Boele studied music education at the Maastricht Conservatoire, followed by ethnomusicology at the University of Amsterdam, where music is studied in its cultural context from an anthropological perspective. In addition to many years of teaching experience, he earned his doctorate in the social sciences summa cum laude in 2013 from the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen (Germany). His dissertation Musicking in Groningen, a study of the uses and functions of music in everyday life in modern Western society, was awarded the Friedrich-Christoph-Dahlmann-Prize.