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Nuray Koç; Sehnaz Sungurtekin – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2023
This study investigates the progression of social-emotional learning skills in children by integrating music activities into creative drama. The research was executed employing a pre-and post-test control group research design. The research cohort consisted of 40 five-year-old participants, separated into two groups of 20 each, experimental and…
Descriptors: Music, Preschool Children, Social Emotional Learning, Creative Activities
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Catherine Cossey – British Journal of Music Education, 2024
Despite the evidence of the benefits of improvisation in instrumental teaching, research indicates that many piano teachers do not include it in their lessons. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influences on piano teachers' pedagogy to determine what factors impacted the teaching of improvisation. A total of 117 UK-based piano…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Music, Music Teachers
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Williamson, Paul; Luebbers, Johannes – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
Collaborative composition is an established method within music education, but it is a relatively rare phenomenon between composers of large-scale musical works. This research explores collaborative composition in a professional context and highlights the potential and value of its inclusion in specialist composition training at a tertiary level.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musical Composition, Cooperative Learning, Creative Activities
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Jean-Christophe Goulet-Pelletier; Denis Cousineau – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2024
This study aimed to understand the factors predicting creative activities and creative achievements among university students. Based on a recently proposed framework of 10 creative spaces, we hypothesized that exploring those creative spaces, alongside the personality trait openness to experience and divergent thinking abilities would predict…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Colleges, Foreign Countries, Creativity
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Jackie Walduck – British Journal of Music Education, 2024
A tension between freedom and constraint is characteristic of improvisation practice and pedagogy, presenting challenges for teachers/workshop leaders. To create musical focus in ensemble improvisation, some sounds are encouraged, whilst others are edited out, ignored or marginalised. This article investigates improvised sounds as central or…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Music
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Jørgen Sjaastad – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2024
Years of failed attempts to engage my mathematics teacher students in exploration and co-creation led me to radically change my teaching approach. Inspired by literature that uses the jazz improv metaphor for teaching, I derived three tenets based on principles from jazz improv. First, I would bring no more than a single problem-solving task to…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement
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Griffith, Amanda E.; Katuka, Gloria Ashiya; Wiggins, Joseph B.; Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth; Freeman, Jason; Magerko, Brian; McKlin, Tom – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
Collaborative learning offers numerous benefits to learners, largely due to the dialogue that is unfolding between them. However, there is still much to learn about the structure of collaborative dialogue, and especially little is known about co-creative dialogues during learning. This paper reports on a study with learners engaged in co-creative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Dialogs (Language), Coding, Student Satisfaction
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John M. Hinck; Stephen B. Davis; Andy C. Clayton; Stephanie Q. Wilson; Melanie Leon – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2023
New instructors often face feeling like an imposter. This article explains an innovative contributioncalled the Music-Coaching-Improv (M-C-I) Framework of 15 skills that includes the top five ways touse music, five key coaching skills, and five core improv skills. The M-C-I Framework was thefoundation for three improv exercises that were selected…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Self Concept, Self Efficacy, Coaching (Performance)
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Larsson, Christina; Georgii-Hemming, Eva – British Journal of Music Education, 2019
The overall purpose of this article is to provide a convenient summary of empirical research on improvisation in general music education and thereby provide guidance to researchers and practitioners, using a systematic, narrative-review approach. By analysing 20 music education research articles, published from 2000-2015 in peer-reviewed journals,…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Music, Music Education, Educational Research
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Szatek, Elsa; Gunnarsson, Karin – Research in Drama Education, 2023
This article concerns how the normative matter of body hair is playfully encountered within a theatre practice for teenage girls. By working with Deleuzian-inspired theories, playfulness is understood as embodied doings, interwoven with the local context. The article explores how playfulness is enacted in relation to the everyday, in particular…
Descriptors: Females, Theater Arts, Play, Human Body
Jody Webb – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This mixed methods action research intervention study analyzed the influence of social music improvisation (SMI) on students' behaviors and perceptions of their connectedness to others in a virtual middle school classroom setting. Nine 10-minute SMI sessions allowed for the accumulation of data, with two additional pre-sessions being informative…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Music Education, Distance Education, Virtual Classrooms
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Ting Yao; Zhongya Qin – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
This study aims to assess personal creativity and the development of higher-order thinking skills in improvisation. The authors evaluated higher-order thinking skills in music improvisation and creativity of improvised musical compositions. The results of the t-test showed significant progress in both creativity and thinking skills among students…
Descriptors: Music, Creative Activities, Music Education, Thinking Skills
Eggerding, Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Little music therapy research has been published on therapeutic presence (TP). This study explored the inclusion of TP in music therapy education. Participants were eight credentialed music therapists who identified as music therapy educators and/or clinical supervisors. They attended one of two focus groups and were asked to submit a 1-minute…
Descriptors: Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Student Attitudes
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Siljamäki, Eeva – Research Studies in Music Education, 2022
This instrumental case study explores and theorizes on the educational potential and value of free collaborative vocal improvisation, a process that enables equal access to music regardless of musical skills. The focus of the article is on the musical activities of an adult choir in Finland that applied tenets from improvisational theatre to…
Descriptors: Music, Music Activities, Singing, Case Studies
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Anna Kuoppamäki; Fanny Vilmilä – Research Studies in Music Education, 2024
This study explores young people's arts participation through music-making in Finland and the factors that may regulate that participation. It seeks to understand the construction of active modes of arts participation in and through adolescents' musical life courses. The interview study was conducted with young people (N = 18) participating in…
Descriptors: Music, Musicians, Music Education, Access to Education
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