ABSTRACT
Cultivating ‘collaborative creativity’ in higher music education programmes presents distinct challenges for teaching and learning within institutional practices. This can be particularly arduous within teacher education programmes where tensions exist between developing students’ own creativity and the institutional demands of fostering creative pedagogical approaches for future classroom teaching. This chapter investigates ‘collaborative creativity’ as it occurred amongst two distinct courses and student cohorts at a teacher education college in Ireland. A contextualized view of ‘collaborative creativity’ in higher music education is taken, with a focus on the socio-musical aspects of group creativity.
