Developing Creativities in Higher Music Education : International Perspectives and Practices

This is the first book to critically address the issue of how we can enhance and develop creativities in higher music education. It features new international, richly diverse perspectives on the nature and practice of creativities in different cultural and institutional contexts, in varying roles and in response to diverse professional pressures and expectations of artistic and educational achievement.

This compelling and provocative book combines powerful social and educational commentaries and examples drawn from international sources based on original practices and experience of a diversity of creativities. The authors provide an important contribution by drawing attention to what is at the heart of all music and how we can understand and foster these multiple creativities at an individual and institutional level. It features new analyses of the question of creativities in higher music education, and offers illustrative and innovative examples of adaptive learning environments for teaching and learning creatively, considering the broader issue of the role of creativities in relation to educational policy in the context of increasingly interventionist governments and rapidly paced educational change.

Topics covered include:

-the conceptual tools for people to think about and debate multiple creativities
-the role of creativities in higher music education
-how musicians can develop multiple creativities in new ways
-new approaches to teaching and learning for multiple creativities
-what constitute leadership creativities in conservatoires and music departments
-creativities at the interface of institutional learning cultures
-assessing the multiple creativities of music.

Developing Creativities in Higher Music Education offers a multi-disciplinary research and practice focus, which will be essential reading for anyone involved in higher education and industry sectors. The book will appeal to academics and practitioners in music, researchers, instrumental and vocal teachers, curriculum and policy developers and institutional managers who want to enrich the higher education experiences of their students and enable them to develop more of their creative potential. It is also ideal reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of music education who are looking for an authoritative selection of writings that define the fields of musical creativities in one comprehensive volume.

Pamela Burnard is Reader in Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Musical Creativities in Practice (2012), Teaching Music Creatively (2013) with Regina Murphy and co-editor of Professional Knowledge in Music Teacher Education (2013), Music Education with Digital Technology (2008).Creative Learning and How we Document It (2007), Reflective Practices in the Arts (2006).