Maria ArgyriouMaria Argyriou serves as Laboratory Teaching Staff for Applied Music Pedagogy, Department of Pre-School Education & Educational Design, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean (Rhodes, Greece). She has a postdoctoral degree from the same deparment (Practical Aspects and Praxial Philosophy of Music Education). She holds a Ph.D. (Department of Music Studies, Ionian University), specializing in cultural policy and music education, as well as the social and political aspects of music education, a Master of Education (The Open University of Greece), and a second Master in Education with a specialization in education leadership and school unit assessment. Her literary activities include the official textbooks for Greek Music Education (School-Age 6–8: Student’s Book, Student’s Textbook, Teachers Handbook), as well as editing scientific and pedagogical editions for the Greek Association of Primary Music Education Teachers (GAPMET). She is co-editor of the open-access “Hellenic Journal of Music, Education, and Culture” (HeJMEC) and editor of the open-access journal “Music in the First Grade” (Department of Pre-School Education & Educational Design, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean). She won one of the three “Kiveli-Y. Horn scholarships/Special Grants 2024” for archival research at “The Music Library of Greece—Lilian Voudouri” in order to fulfill the need for research specializing in a certain collection of children's songs from the archive of Minos Dounias (1900–1962)”. Maria actively participates in the International Society of Music Education (a member of the SIG Practice and Research Group in Integrated Music Education, PRIME), in the European Music Council (EMC), in the European Association for Music in School (EAS), and as the chairperson in the Greek Association of Primary Music Education Teachers (GAPMET). Read More Read Less