Browsing by Author "Suua, Marja"

Aims. In 2014 the principles of primary school’s curriculum were renewed. The curriculum states the aims of teaching of music to be the following: “Students’ thinking and comprehension is improved by offening regularly possibilities for acting with sound and music, composing and other creative creationing.” Creative creation of music has arisen to be a current research topic in the field of music education, because even though musical inventing has been a part of music education for a long time, the new curriculum emphasizes especially the creative creation as the aim of the education. The aim of this study is to find out what kind of challenges creative creation involves. I will define the concept of the creative creation of music in the beginning of this study and later on I will gather together challenges related to the concept from literature and previous studies. Method. I chose narrative qualitative literature review as the research method for it supported the aims of my study the most. This type of literature review aims to collect incoherent information about the studied phenomenon and form an inclusive description. The keywords I used were for instance “creative creation of music” and “creativity and music”. I analysed the collected results by first picking the challenges and then organizing them into four different categories; external factors, factors related to the teacher and the student and general music education challenges. I also created sub-categories for clarity. Results and conclusion. The research showed that the biggest challenges in the creative creation of music were related to large group sizes, lack of education and lack of time. Other challenges were lack of interest among students, financial cuts in education, and the fact that teachers did not use the ways of creative creation of music. In conclusion I can state that the concept of creative creation of music and the methods related to it are not yet known well enough. The empowerment of creative creation of music also requires resources.