The Challenge of Teaching Creativity in School Music Education in Mainland China

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Abstract

Creativity is completely embraced in every part of our culture. For Bourdieu (1993), a cultural product has “meaning and interest only for someone who possesses the cultural competence, that is, the code, into which it is encoded (p. 7). Csikszentmihalyi (1988) proposed a model of creativity and drew attention to the social context out of which creativity results from a complex interaction among a person, a field, and a culture in its innovation. Despite the consideration that creative individuals work in isolation, creativity results in large part from interaction and collaboration with other individuals. Creativity in human achievements has provided many contributions to human civilization. For example, ancient Greeks prided themselves on their creativity in the arts, literature, science and society. Other examples of creativity in human achievements include Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling, Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night,” Darwin’s work On the Origin of Species, and Einstein’s theory of relativity. These achievements are a general expression of humanity by particular people, and both heritage and creativity have laid the foundations for an innovative, vibrant and prosperous knowledge society.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCreativity in Music Education
EditorsYukiko Tsubonou, Ai-Girl Tan, Mayumi Oie
PublisherSpringer Singapore
Chapter13
Pages167-185
Number of pages19
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9789811327490
ISBN (Print)9789811327476
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Dec 2018

Publication series

NameCreativity in the Twenty First Century
PublisherSpringer, Singapore
ISSN (Print)2364-6675
ISSN (Electronic)2364-6683

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