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Creativity, technology and knowledge - a study of the relations between musical skills and musical creative work
Mikkel Snorre Boysen

Last modified: 2011-08-15

Abstract


(Mikkel Snorre Boysen)

The project examines the relationship between knowledge and creativity in a technological framework. This addresses a number of unresolved issues related to the creativity research field. The main question is, what impact domain-specific knowledge has on the creative processes/products, and how technology can help facilitate creativity. The study is designed as a comparative case study in which participants with instrumental skills are compared with participants without instrumental skills. Participants are recruited from the Social Education (Bachelor in Social Education) and elementary school, and the project is anchored in an institutional youth cultural context. Throughout the course participants compose music based on various tasks and technological setups. The finished compositions are evaluated in various social forums in order to see the assessment of creativity as a social construction. The analysis of process/product is triangulated and is based mainly on creativity theory, learning theory and cultural theory.

The PhD project is located at the University of Southern Denmark, and partly funded by University College Sealand.

 

Titel: Kreativitet, teknologi og kundskab - en undersøgelse af musikfaglige kompetencers betydning for musikalsk kreativt arbejde (Mikkel Snorre Boysen)

 

I projektet undersøges sammenhænge mellem kundskab og kreativitet indenfor en teknologisk ramme. Hermed adresseres en række uafklarede spørgsmål med tilknytning til det kreativitetsteoretiske forskningsfelt. Primært fokuseres på hvilken betydning domænespecifik kundskab har for kreative processer/produkter, og hvorledes man med udgangspunkt i unges forudsætninger kan facilitere kreativitet. Undersøgelsen designes som et komparativt casestudie, hvor deltagere med instrumentale forudsætninger sammenholdes med deltagere uden instrumentale forudsætninger. Deltagerne rekrutteres fra pædagogseminarium og folkeskole, og projektet er således forankret i en institutionel ungdomskulturel kontekst. Igennem forløbet komponerer deltagerne musik med udgangspunkt i forskellige opgaver og teknologiske setups. De færdige kompositioner evalueres i forskellige sociale fora, hvorved vurderingen af kreativitet etableres som en social konstruktion. Analysen af proces/produkt trianguleres og udfoldes indenfor en kreativitetsteoretisk, læringsteoretisk og kulturelteoretisk ramme.

 

Ph.d. projektet er tilknyttet Syddansk Universitet, Danmark og finansieres delvist af University College Sjælland.


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