ROGER MANTIE
Roger Mantie is Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Culture and Media at University of Toronto Scarborough, with a graduate appointment at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. His teaching and scholarship focus on connections between education and wellness, with an emphasis on lifelong engagement in and with music and the arts. Roger is the author of Music, Leisure, Education: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (2021), co-author of Education, Music, and the Social Lives of Undergraduates: Collegiate A Cappella and the Pursuit of Happiness (2020), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Technology and Music Education (2017) and the Oxford Handbook of Music Making and Leisure (2016). Complete information at rogermantie.com.
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Imagining a Posthuman Music Education
In this paper I offer a celebratory (though not uncritical) view that rejects technological determinism and other critiques of technology in music, arguing that music education would be better served by thinking less in terms of loss and preservation of “traditional” conceptions of musicality/humanity, and more in terms of how we have always been, in a sense, cyborgs, and that traditionalism may be preventing imaginative thinking that could enhance the profession’s impact on society.