ABSTRACT

This edited volume explores how selected researchers, students and academics name and frame creative teaching and learning as constructed through the rationalities, practices, relationships, events, objects and systems that are brought to educational sites and developed by learning communities. The concept of creative learning questions the starting-points and opens up the outcomes of curriculum, and this frames creative teaching not only as a process of learning but as an agent of change. Within the book, the various creativities that are valued by different stakeholders teaching and studying in the higher music sector are delineated, and processes and understandings of creative teaching are articulated, both generally in higher music education and specifically through their application within the design of individual modules. This focus makes the text relevant to scholars, researchers and practitioners across many fields of music, including those working in musicology, composition, performance, music education, and music psychology. The book contributes new perspectives on our understanding of the role of creative teaching and learning and processes in creative teaching across the domain of music learning in higher music education sectors.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part I|55 pages

Articulating experience in secondary and higher music education

chapter 1|13 pages

Pre-higher education creativity

Composition in the classroom

chapter 3|14 pages

Creativity in higher music education

Views of university music lecturers

chapter 4|14 pages

Considering creative teaching in relation to creative learning

Developing a knowing–doing orientation for change in higher music education

part II|87 pages

Developing the creative lecturer and teacher

chapter 5|14 pages

Thinking, making, doing

Perspectives on practice-based, research-led teaching in higher music education

chapter 6|14 pages

Practice-as-research

A method for articulating creativity for practitioner-researchers

chapter 8|13 pages

Teaching the supreme art

Pre-service teacher perceptions of creative opportunities in the higher education music class

part III|104 pages

Philosophies, practices and pedagogies

chapter 11|15 pages

Imagined structures

Creative approaches for musical analysis

chapter 13|12 pages

Recontextualised learning through embedded creativity

Developing a module that applies historically informed performance practice to Baroque music

chapter 14|13 pages

There and now

Creativity across cultures

chapter 15|16 pages

Dalcroze Eurhythmics

Bridging the gap between the academic and the practical through creative teaching and learning