Music Graduate Colloquium: Andrea Creech
Presented by Graduate Studies in Music, the Don Wright Faculty of Music Graduate Colloquium series includes lectures by distinguished guests, Western faculty members, and senior graduate students on all fields of research and creative activity in music.
Andrea Creech (McGill University)
“Signature Pedagogies and Musical Possible Selves”
Admission is free, and all are welcome to join.
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Abstract
Musical possible selves are musical self-stories that shape and guide our musical learning and participation. Our musical possible selves offer coherence in our musical lives, functioning as a link between cognition and motivation by pulling us towards (or propelling us away from) future experiences of musicking. In this presentation, I will explore some ways in which the signature pedagogies of music learning and participation – including foundational values, frameworks for learning, and core pedagogical practices - can have profound implications for the musical ‘self-stories’ that we construct throughout our lives. I will draw upon three research examples representing diverse contexts, demonstrating the multifaceted nature of pedagogies that support learners in navigating experiential, imaginal, conceptual and practical learning and thereby developing elaborate understandings of themselves as musicians. A key message is that musical possible selves are developmental and lifelong narratives that emerge at the intersection of context, values, dimensions of learning, and frameworks for facilitation.
