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Toward a reconstruction of ‘creativity’ in music education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2006

Jere T. Humphreys
Jere T. Humphreys
Affiliation:
School of Music, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-0405, USAJere.Humphreys@asu.edu
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Abstract

Creativity in human endeavours is being discussed and promoted in many fields and venues throughout the Western world. In this paper I discuss reasons for the current emphasis on creativity, especially in music education. I also describe some philosophical, psychological, cultural, and political/social/economic factors that have worked for and against the teaching of creativity in school music programmes, while recognising that technology also plays an important role.

No poet shall compose anything in contravention of the public standards of law and right, honour and good…

–Plato (Laws: VII: 28)

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POINT FOR DEBATE
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British Journal of Music Education , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , November 2006 , pp. 351 - 361
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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