Journal of Music, Technology and Education
Special Issue
An examination of affordances of the application of 'open source' to music education.
Guest Editors: Ketil Thorgersen (Sweden) Lauri Väkevä (Finland) , Mikko Myllykoski (Finland) Steve Dillon (Australia), Alex Ruthmann (USA)
Call for papers
Brief description
This special issue of JMTE (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=152/) will examine the affordances of the application of 'open source' to music education. Each article will focus on one particular aspect and context.
The publication of this special issue follows on from an international symposium presentation at the Research in Music Education conference in Exeter in the UK in April 2011. The symposium revealed significant aspects of the need to apply development of philosophy and practice around the concept of open source in music classrooms.
Proposals
Music practitioners and researchers are invited to contribute research articles (6,000 words) or project reports (3,000-4,000 words) that look beyond open source a set of licenses and to consider the ideas and ideals that constitute what can be considered the open source movement and possible implications for music education research. What is it that makes masses of people spend their skills and time to produce software for free, which anyone can make use of and continue to develop freely and what constitutes such a generative society? The aim is for articles to elaborate on this from philosophical, pedagogical and practical technical points of view in an open atmosphere where the hope is that knowledge will be generated collectively through the session in an open sourced mode.
Articles could address, but are not limited to the following questions that arise for music education:
1) How should music educators relate to different arguments for and against creative recycling in the digital music culture?
2) Is it possible to teach music taking seriously the argument for Music 3.0, and if it is, how can we support creativity full-scale in music education recognizing this possibility?
3) How can we offer versatile musical content and tasks with educational open source applications?
4) How to maintain people's individual rights to their own musical content in open shareable software environments?
5) Might "Music" be the original "open source" project? What might we gain or lose by looking toward technological models for music education?
6) What might be afforded by providing students with the tools to design and build theri own musical environments?
7) What are the relational pedagogies needed for this approach?
8) How can we apply the philosophy of 'open source' technology in music education?
A Prezi outline of the RIME symposium can be found at: http://prezi.com/cm0vnmiayfq-/open-source-and-music-education-rime-2011/
Proposals for research articles and project reports should be e-mailed to Ketil Thorgersen (Sweden) Lauri Väkevä (Finland) , Mikko Myllykoski (Finland) Steve Dillon (Australia), Alex Ruthmann (USA)
no later than 31 October 2011, and include a 250- 500 word abstract, the title of the proposed article, a brief biography (200 words max), and the contact details of the author. Authors will be notified of the outcome of their proposals by the end of December 2011. If successful, the full articles would need to be submitted by the end of January 2012.
For more information, contact:
Dr Ketil Thorgersen ketil.thorgersen@utep.su.se
Dr Steve Dillon, Queensland University of Technology: sc.dillon@qut.edu.au
Dr Lauri Väkevä lauri.vakeva@siba.fi
Dr Alex Ruthmann alex.ruthmann@gmail.com
Dr Mikko Myllykoski mikko.myllykoski@campus.jyu.fi