Developing Creativities in Higher Music Education

This is the first book to critically address the issue of how we can enhance and develop creativities in higher music education. It features new international, richly diverse perspectives on the nature and practice of creativities in different cultural and institutional contexts, in varying roles and in response to diverse professional pressures and expectations of artistic and educational achievement.

Auteur

Pamela Burnard is Reader in Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Musical Creativities in Practice (2012), Teaching Music Creatively (2013) with Regina Murphy and co-editor of Professional Knowledge in Music Teacher Education (*2013), Music Education with Digital Technology (2008).*Creative Learning and How we Document It (2007), Reflective Practices in the Arts (2006).

Contenu

Foreword Harald Jørgensen. Introduction Pamela Burnard**Part I: Perspectives Championing the significance of creativities in higher music education Pamela Burnard. Has music happened? The 'creative musician' and the paradox of experiencing music and learning as creative acts James Garnett. Creativity as a framing capacity in higher music education Patrick Schmidt. Education policy reform: cultures, creativities and conditions in Hong Kong post 1997 Samuel Leong. A cultural perspective on creativity: how traditions of Africa's people inform higher music education Emily Akuno. Digital music and media creativities Andrew Brown and Jason Nelson**Part II: Practices A spectrum of musical creativities and particularities of practice Pamela Burnard. Performance creativities in higher music education Patricia González-Moreno. Developing collaborative creativity in university music performance students through paired essay writing Diana Blom. Using dialogue and digital media composing to enhance and develop artistic creativity, creative collaborations and multimodal practices Susan A. O'Neill**and Deanna C.C. Peluso. Facilitating the development of innovative projects with undergraduate conservatory students Oscar Odena. Musical creativities in the practice of composition pedagogy: releasing the muse in current and future teachers Janice P. Smith. Creative engagement in and through music: the challenge for undergraduate and postgraduate students Charles Byrne. Teaching future music teachers to incorporate creativity in their teaching: the challenge for university teacher practice Valerie Peters. Using a survey on creativities as reflective practice and for reforming practice in music teacher education Anna Houmann and Eva Saether. Creativity in and through pedagogy: working with generalist educators in higher education Cathy Benedict. Assessment of composing in higher music education: purposes and practices Martin Fautley**Part III: Programme and Institutional Change Leadership creativities and leadership development in higher music education Pamela Burnard. Learning cultures, creativities and higher music education institutions Rosie Perkins. The role of career creativities in developing identity and becoming expert selves Dawn Bennett. Musicians as beginning music teachers: creative transfer and identity in higher music education Angeliki Triantafyllaki. Creative space and the 'silent power of traditions' in popular music performance programmes Gareth Dylan Smith and Atar Shafighian. Promoting institutional creativity: the case of a Taiwanese university's use of integrated resources to produce a grand musical Hsu-Chan Kuo and Jing-Jyi Wu. Razing structures and raising creative teaching and learning in institutional programme curricula Jody L. Kerchner. Sound connections for institutional practice: cultivating 'collaborative creativity' through group composition Ailbhe Kenny. Finding the balance: creativity and text-based approaches in research and research training programmes Scott Harrison. Creative assessment of creativity in musical performance: lessons for institutional change Andrea Creech, Carlos Lopez-Real, Kate Paterson and Rachel Sherry.