Activating Diverse Musical Creativities: Teaching and Learning in Higher Music Education - Hardcover

Bloomsbury

 
9781472589118: Activating Diverse Musical Creativities: Teaching and Learning in Higher Music Education
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1472589114 ISBN 13: 9781472589118
Publisher: Bloombury, 2015

Synopsis

Activating Diverse Creativities and Entrepreneurship analyses ways in which music programs in higher education can activate and foster diverse musical creativities, as well as the relationship of musical creativities to entrepreneurship work in higher education teaching and learning practices. These issues are of vital importance to contemporary educational practice and training in both university and conservatoire contexts, particularly with the growing importance of entrepreneurship, defined here as a type of creativity, for successful musicians working in the 21st century creative and cultural industries. International contributors address a broad spectrum of musical creativities in higher education, including: - improvisational creativity - empathic creativity - leadership creativity They demonstrate the transformative possibilities of embedding them in the teaching and learning of higher education music and analyze the active practice of musical creativities in teaching and learning and recognize their mutual dependency. In exploring teaching for creativity, Activating Diverse Musical Creativities focuses on higher music education teachers using imaginative approaches in order to make learning more interesting, effective and relevant. In considering learning specific creativities in lively communities within university and conservatoire settings, the contributors address the issues related to the nurturing and development of students musical creativities.

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About the Author

Pamela Burnard is Reader in Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. Recent publications include Musical Creativities in Practice (2012), Teaching Music Creatively (with Regina Murphy, 2013) and Developing Creativities in Higher Music Education (2013). Elizabeth Haddon is Research Fellow at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Making Music in Britain: Interviews with Those Behind the Notes (2006).

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Publisher
Bloombury
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1472589114
ISBN 13 
9781472589118
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272