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Teaching Co-Creation

Paradoxes in Rock and Pop Ensemble Classes

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Co-Creation in Higher Education

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All musicians intuitively know and understand the experience of co-creation in a band, but we have yet to develop awareness in Higher Education (HE) of the tacit knowledge and practices linked to these experiences. When teaching rock and pop ensemble playing in HE, we often limit ourselves to focusing, during classes, on the music tradition and the domain-specific technical skills.

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    Turid Nørlund Christensen

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  1. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Tatiana Chemi

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    Lone Krogh

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Christensen, T.N. (2017). Teaching Co-Creation. In: Chemi, T., Krogh, L. (eds) Co-Creation in Higher Education. Creative Education Book Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-119-3_12

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