Bio

Evan Tobias is Associate Professor of Music Learning and Teaching at Arizona State University where he heads the Consortium for Innovation and Transformation in Music Education (CITME). He is Director of ArtsWork: The Kax Herberger Center for Children and the Arts, a program of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts that advances transformative, transdisciplinary, collaborative, and socially engaged arts and design programming, education, and research in relation to young people and is also a member of the ASU Music, Learning, and Society Research Group. 

Evan’s teaching, creative work, and research are animated by the question: How might we make a positive impact on society through musical engagement, learning, and inquiry? So, he focuses on innovation and transformation in music education and how music learning and teaching might make a positive impact on people’s lives and society.

He is currently exploring the intersections of futures thinking, imagination, and curricular inquiry to help people imagine possibilities for music learning and teaching and to increase our nimbleness and flexibility in the face of change.

His research and creative work focuses on creative uses of digital media and technology, issues of equity, expanding beyond traditional music curricula, and approaches to integrating popular and participatory cultures and music in music classrooms.

His publications range from addressing issues around digitally mediated musical engagement and learning to pedagogical approaches such as inquiry and project-based learning and facilitating hybrid music learning contexts. He is on the editorial boards of College Music Symposium: Instructional Technologies and Methodologies Component; Journal of Music, Technology, and Education; Journal of Popular Music Education; and Music Educators Journal. He is a frequent presenter at state, national, and international conferences. Evan holds a Ph.D. and Master of Music in music education from Northwestern University and Bachelor of Music in music education from the Crane School of Music at SUNY-Potsdam. Prior to his appointment at ASU, Evan taught a technology in music education course at DePaul University and middle school instrumental and general music in New York.

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Presentations

Teaching and Mentorship

Consulting & Professional Development

Projects and Initiatives

Additional Interests and Pursuits

In relation to music teaching and learning, pedagogy, and curriculum, some topics of interest include:

Connected learning, contemporary musical practices, convergence culture, creative thinking and musicianship, creative youth development, curriculum design and development, digital culture, digital humanities, equity and social justice, hybridity and hybrid approaches, hyphenated musicianship, inquiry-based learning, interdisciplinary and transdiciplinary collaboration, intermedia, maker culture, makerspaces, media arts, participatory culture(s), popular music and popular culture, project-based learning, STEM, STEAM, sustainability, technology, transmedia, video games and interactive media.

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