

Assessing Creativity?
StartFragment x-tinymce/html In general there is a dearth of literature surrounding the use of rubrics in musical development. However,...


Creativity and Constructionism
There is little doubt that music education is well placed to being taught through project based learning. The teacher acting as...


Three impulses of Creativity
During his keynote speech at the Music Education Matters 2016 conference, writer and broadcaster Richard Holloway spoke about what drives...


The Nature of Creativity
The article 'The Nature of Creativity'(available here) taken from Creativity Research Journal 2006, Vol 18, no.1 pp87-98, outlines...


Resource
Often in an arts education setting, it is difficult to pin down creativity, how we define it, how we develop it and also what it is we...


Shelf life of Rubrics
StartFragment x-tinymce/html In this article, Rick Incorvati and Michael Mattison from the University of Wittenberg discuss the pros and...


Individual composers in a group situation
StartFragment x-tinymce/html In looking at how young people interact in group setting when composing and also from a teacher's...


Different Assessment Techniques
StartFragment x-tinymce/html In their book "Minds on Music - Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking," Kaschub and Smith utline...


So what exactly is composition?
StartFragment x-tinymce/html One of the challenges which I am going to face in exploring the pedagogies behind teaching composition is to...


A Principled Approach to teaching music composition
This article from Kaschub and Smith, published in 'Research and Issues in Music Education,' was a game changer for me. It helps make the...