Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education

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.

Elizabeth Haddon is Research Fellow in the Music Department at the University of York, UK, where she leads the MA in Music Education: Instrumental and Vocal Teaching and also teaches piano. Her research focuses on pedagogy, creativity and musical performance, particularly in the higher education sector, and includes the book Making Music in Britain: Interviews with those behind the notes (Ashgate, 2006) as well as articles in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and presentations at international conferences.

Pamela Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. She holds degrees in Music Performance, Music Education, Education and Philosophy. Her primary interest is creativities research for which she is internationally recognised. She is the author/co-author/editor of twelve books and multiple refereed journals. She is convenor of the Creativities in Intercultural Arts Network (CIAN), co-convenor of the British Education Research Association Creativities in Education SIG, and host and convenor of the Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Across Cultures (BIBAC) International Biennial Conference. She serves on numerous editorial boards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.