ABSTRACT
Creativity might be defined as the collision of two ideas to make a valued new one (Koestler 1967). Task 10.1 describes how it may be possible to illustrate creative thinking in music when colliding with another subject discipline. It introduces a simple and highly transferable exercise in creative music-making which starts with a creative writing exercise.
Contemporary cross-curricular studies are characterised by the use of two or more perspectives to make sense of a single theme or experience. Research strongly suggests that cross-curricular approaches stimulate strong engagement on the part of pupils and teachers but that minimising the number of subject approaches is the most effective way of ensuring subject progression in a cross-curricular context (Wineburg and Grossman 2000). However, combining two subjects does not automatically result in learning in both or either.
