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'In the Cracks between Freedom and Fear': Student Reflections on Identity and Confidence Learning in a Creative Music Ensemble
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de Bruin, Leon R. – Music Education Research, 2022
The purpose of this study was to conduct a qualitative study examining 'real-world' jazz performance contexts within an Australian tertiary music course. Course projects were designed to offer students opportunities to gain a better understanding of the intersections of working and performing with their teachers in an improvised music ensemble.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Student Attitudes, Reflection, Creativity
Expert Improvisers' Formal, Informal and Situated Influences on Learning, Motivation and Self-Efficacy: A Qualitative Study
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de Bruin, Leon R. – Music Education Research, 2019
For musicians, learning to improvise requires individual and collaborative skill and knowledge that in experts is acquired over years of immersion and enculturation. Learning formally, informally or a combination of both, improvisers 'learn to learn' by evolving meta-cognitive capabilities necessary to develop and refine improvisational expertise.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Informal Education, Music Activities, Creative Activities
Expert Voices in Learning Improvisation: Shaping Regulation Processes through Experiential Influence
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de Bruin, Leon R. – Music Education Research, 2017
Interpersonal and collaborative activity plays an important role in the social aspects of self-regulated learning (SRL) development. Peer, teacher and group interactions facilitate support for self-regulation, co-regulation and socially shared regulatory processes. Situated and experiential interplay facilitates personal, co-constructed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Creative Activities, Musicians