CREATE YOU!
Pedagogical development project (PUV-project) by Kirsten Juul Seidenfaden
Pedagogical development project
A child’s own sense of self-worth and pride grows when they feel that their ideas are valuable. Children are filled with ideas, and their ability to fantasise all day long is a treasure chest for us music teachers to incorporate into our lessons.
CREATE YOU! It is a pedagogical project that aims to focus on children’s own experience of creating and composing music and the process behind it. It will also aim to give music teachers an insight into particular resources and tools that can facilitate work with creative processes in both music and state schools.
The joy of music for children
Children are required to have worked creatively with music in both music and state schools. It is an essential part of musical development and is therefore included as part of the school curriculum. When children are involved in creating music, they develop a sense of ownership and pride for the music that can guarantee even more joy surrounding music and music lessons. There are also many other positive outcomes; it can help develop a child’s creative abilities, it strengthens their fantasy, strengthens their drive to experiment, and develops a child’s ability to communicate and express themselves.
Musical creativity is interesting and exciting, but it is also a challenge in music as a school subject. Facilitating children’s own creative process is a demanding task for the music teacher: it is demanding of the teacher's own musical abilities, but it also requires that the teacher can inspire and awaken each pupil's own creative drive. Without genuine motivation and desire, the creative process will not be possible.
My focus is to make life easy for our music teachers in state schools and music schools. CREATE YOU! It is a PUV-project that aims to support music teachers in their work with children and creative processes.
The content of the project
Teaching material, consisting of songs, games and exercises, will be worked on throughout the project, continuously being tested together with groups of children, students of RDAM and music teachers. The material will be thoroughly analysed and developed before being published by the publisher Dansk Sang.
Pedagogical development project (PUV-projekt) by Kirsten Juul Seidenfaden, lecturer and teacher at RDAM on the Music Teaching further education course, in various main subjects including Music Pedagogy.
