Cultivating Creativity and Innovation in Music Education
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2024) | Viewed by 7207
Special Issue Editors
Interests: creativity; embodied music pedagogy; music educational technology; well-being
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We kindly invite you to consider submitting a manuscript to our Special Issue, entitled “Cultivating Creativity and Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Music Education".
Creativity and innovation are fundamental to imaginative and inspiring music making and are important drivers of learning, contributing to musicians’ personal and artistic growth. Similarly, they play an important role in teaching, whether it concerns the professional growth of the individual teacher or the development of music education. As Burnard (2012) states, teachers should transform education by “developing new understandings, new practices, new pedagogies, and access to new forms of purposeful activity inspired by contemporary fields of music”.
This Special Issue aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of creativity and innovation within the context of music education. It aspires to bring together such “new understandings, practices and pedagogies” that not only cultivate the creative development of learners and teachers, but also transform and innovate music education by evoking significant and impactful changes to the way music is taught, learned, and experienced.
We welcome a broad array of topics addressing creative and innovative aspects of music education, including, for example, the teaching methods, curriculum design, technology integration, interdisciplinarity of the arts, accessibility, inclusivity, and the overall learning environment.
We particularly welcome contributions that connect new insights in, for example, musicology (e.g., 4E music cognition), the educational sciences (e.g., non-linearity, multimodality, universal design for learning), philosophy (e.g., posthumanism) and psychology (e.g., positive psychology, well-being, positive technology, dynamic system theory) to creativity and innovation.
Dr. Luc Nijs
Dr. Melissa Bremmer
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- music education
- teaching creatively
- teaching for creativity
- innovation
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