ABSTRACT
Music teacher educators face a daunting series of challenges in preparing students for their professional lives. The practice of teaching in higher music education programmes has become more and more complex with the explosion of knowledge and the changing clientele. Perhaps preparing classroom and studio music teachers to incorporate creativity in their teaching is one of the most important challenges. Future music teachers ask questions such as: ‘Do I just get out of the way?’ and ‘How do I structure the learning environment?’ For music teacher educators, the questions are equally difficult: ‘Will my colleagues buy in so the students can create in the studio, in their theory classes, etc., in addition to learning about the teaching of creativity in pedagogy classes?’ and ‘Is it possible to teach about the pedagogy of creativity? If so, how? What types of innovative pedagogical practices might be appropriate?’
