DANIEL SHEVOCK
Daniel J. Shevock is a music education philosopher whose scholarship blends creativity, ecology, and critique. He is the author of the monograph Eco-Literate Music Pedagogy, published by Routledge, articles, and a blog at eco-literate.com where he wrestles with ideas such as sustainability, place, culture, and class. He currently serves as a steering committee member for the MayDay Group, and is a public school music teacher in State College, Pennsylvania.
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Tensions Between Eco-literacy and Educational Technology During the Pandemic
The purpose of this paper is to clarify and interpret tensions that appear between teaching for eco-literacy and specific technologies embraced by U.S. public school music teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teaching music as cultivating eco-literacy involves fostering place-consciousness, reducing waste, and unearthing sustainable ways of living. The pandemic has increased the ways and extent to which educational technologies mediate music education. Convivial tools, which compliment everyday life and creative connections among persons, and non-convivial tools, which promote waste, obsolescence, or surveillance, are identified. The paper offers an emerging model for adoption and rejection of technological tools in music classrooms.