CC BY-NC 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 InternationalLord, KatDeazley, Stephen2025-10-012025-09-16Lord, K. and Deazley, S. (2025) ‘Ode to Joy: discussions on creating a chorus of jubilation in education’, Education in the North, 32(2), pp. 114–122. Available at: https://doi.org/10.26203/7WYH-YS09.2398-0184https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/14427https://doi.org/10.26203/7wyh-ys09Kat Lord - ORCID: 0000-0002-4926-255X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4926-255XIn this dialogue, Stephen, Artistic Director of a non-profit arts organisation, and Kat, a former primary school teacher and Senior Lecturer in Education at a Post-1992 university, reflect on the nature of joy in informal and formal education spaces as taken from their professional experiences. They explore how to create the conditions for joy in those spaces through song, discussing their collaboration to design an inclusive and sustainable singing programme, Sing for Wellbeing.114–122enThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/SingingWellbeingEducationInclusionJoyArticle