Music Education In 2030: Technology, Education Reform, Future Challenges And Opportunities

I am very much looking forward to joining former NAFME president Scott Shuler and Prof. of Music Ed at University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Barbara McLain, for our presentation “Music Education In 2030: Technology, Education Reform, Future Challenges And Opportunities” at the upcoming 2014 NAfME National In-Service Conference. Our session is an outgrowth of a set of articles we wrote in Arts Education Policy Review in which we reflected on Shuler’s prior predictions for music education and projected our own analyses of music teaching and learning in relation to the future.

During our presentation I’ll address some of the issues I discussed in my article “Reflections on the present and looking ahead: A response to Shuler.” Along with addressing contemporary issues and how they relate to the future of music education we will discuss policy and its implications for music educators.

If you are interested in issues of technology, education reform, contemporary and future challenges or opportunities and are attending the NAfME In-Service conference, consider attending our session on Tuesday October 28 @10:00 am.

Taylor and Francis, the publishers of Arts Education Policy Review have graciously provided open access to Volume 115 Issue 1  in which our articles appeared, which means you can read each article for free until the conference is over. If you are attending the conference you might want to take a look and take part in related dialogue during the conference. I’ve included the titles of each article below:

From Retrospective to Proactive: Creating the Future that Students Need – S. Shuler

Scott Shuler’s “Music and Education in the Twenty-First Century: A Retrospective”—Review and Response -B. McLain

Algorithms and the Future of Music Education: A Response to Shuler   – M. Thibeault

Reflecting on the Present and Looking Ahead: A Response to Shuler – E. Tobias