Janet Robbins is professor emerita of music education at West Virginia University with specialization in general music methods, Orff Schulwerk, and qualitative inquiry. Her teaching and scholarship reflect a career-long interest in ethnographic research, practitioner inquiry, and Orff Schulwerk’s music and movement approach. Her book chapter “Practitioner Inquiry,” appears in Approaches to Qualitative Research: The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research in American Music Education, Vol. 1(2020). For more than twenty years, Janet was part of Eastman’s summer Orff Schulwerk program, both as a teacher and as director of a teacher-research collaborative, Orff SPIEL (Schulwerk Project: Implementing Eastman’s Levels). Her interest in cross-cultural creativity was sparked by her work with Music Alive!, a federally funded faculty-student exchange project between WVU and Brazil partner universities in Recife and Rio de Janeiro (2006-2012). She chronicles university students’ study-abroad experiences in her chapter “Crossing Borders: Building Bridges for an International Exchange in Music Teacher Education,” published in Alternative Approaches in Music Education: Case Studies from the Field (2010). Janet traveled to Brazil to study music and dance traditions of Northeast Brazil for two sabbaticals (2006 and 2011), and in 2018 she returned to the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife as a Fulbright Specialist for a project, “Music, Culture, and Creative Practices,” aimed at promoting the nexus of music education and ethnomusicology. She has been coordinating WVU’s World Music Pedagogy summer course since 2015.