CATHY BENEDICT & JARED O'LEARY
Cathy Benedict joined the Music Education faculty at Western University, Ontario Canada in July 2015. She has taught at New York University and served as Undergraduate Coordinator for Music Education at Florida International University. She has taught classes such as elementary pedagogy, Orff, curriculum design, music psychology, critical readings, and music and special needs students. Her scholarly interests lay in facilitating environments in which students take on the perspective of a justice-oriented citizen. To this end, her research focuses on the processes of education and the ways in which teachers and students interrogate taken-for-granted, normative practices. She has published in such journals as Philosophy of Music Education Review, Music Education Research, and Research Students in Music Education, and the Brazilian journal ABEM.
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Jared O’Leary is a multiplicity whose research interests include music engagement and learning through video games and interactive audio; affinity, hybrid, and participatory music engagement and learning; and the intersections between music engagement, learning, and computer science. Visit JaredOLeary.com to stay up to date with his latest research.
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Ethical Conceptualizations of Functional and Critical Literacies: Music Technology in the Curriculum
In many music education contexts, musicians continue to engage with music through practices that met the societal demands of prior decades or centuries. The relatively recent inclusion of music technology within music education curricula and standards may signal an increased awareness of filling current and future job markets as a musician. However, these approaches to education conflate the social function of education with "jobs" while ignoring leisure pursuits. In this paper, we problematize the social function of literacies and propose ways of ethically conceptualizing music curricula that embraces both functional and critical literacies.