ERIC Number: EJ1297606
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jun
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-1057-0837
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The Value of Learning Collective Free Music Improvisation: Preservice Music Educators' Perspectives
Journal of Music Teacher Education, v30 n3 p40-53 Jun 2021
I conducted a case study to explore preservice music teachers' behaviors, thoughts, and feelings when engaged in collective free music improvisation. Nine preservice music teachers were taught how to freely improvise within groups as part of a teacher education course and participated in interviews and focus group discussions. Major themes highlighted learning across three segments that emphasized communication and collaborative skills, entrepreneurial skills and risk taking, and reconciliation and transformation. I concluded that the sociomusical outcomes produced by collective free improvisation may complement those of more formal and idiomatic improvisation practices, and that by introducing preservice music teachers to free improvisation activities, they may be more willing to engage PK-12 students in free improvisation lessons that enhance the existing school music curriculum.
Descriptors: Music Activities, Preservice Teachers, Music Teachers, Student Attitudes, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Risk
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore
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