Developing higher music education students’ creativity

Odena, O. (2023) Developing higher music education students’ creativity. In: Sangiorgio, A. (ed.) Creative Interactions: Creative Learning, Creative Teaching, and Teaching for Group Creativity in Music Education. University of Music and Theatre Munich: Munich, Germany, pp. 20-31.

Abstract

This chapter discusses the development of musical and general creativity by advanced music students. The concepts of innovation and creativity are examined in the context of policies for a ‘creative economy’, with an example from a student-led project on the use of drama to reduce performance anxiety in competitive settings. Three elements for the project’s success that formed a holding environment nesting the students’ development are considered: collaboration, time management and students’ agency. The conclusions offer ten building blocks to facilitate the development of students’ creativity(ies) in higher music education.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Additional Information: First published in 2018 by Routledge as Chapter 4 in Odena’s monograph Musical Creativity Revisited. Reproduced in this edited book with permission of Informa UK. The author’s opening keynote at the conference Creative Interactions 2022 in Munich was based on this chapter, which has been adapted here with updated references and title. This book, edited by Sangiorgio, gathers the contributions of an international team of experts who participated in the 2022 conference Creative Interactions at the University of Music and Theatre Munich, Germany (https://creativeinteractions2022.eu/). The focus of the volume is on creative learning, creative teaching, and teaching for group creativity in music education. These are distinct, but interconnected aspects of educational situations in which learners can develop their creative agency and identity, teachers devise imaginative approaches to make learning more meaningful, and adopt opportune strategies to foster the learners’ collaborative creative abilities. The chapters provide both research-based perspectives and accounts of creative practices from diverse educational contexts, including primary and secondary education, higher education, instrumental tuition, out-of-school contexts, and online learning.
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Odena, Professor Oscar
• Authors: Odena, O.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Educational Leadership & Policy; College of Social Sciences > School of Social & Environmental Sustainability
• Publisher: University of Music and Theatre Munich

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