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Working within the field of creativity can be difficult within a context of the arts. Just mentioning the word could get you into trouble. One thought is that in arts education we don’t talk about creativity in fear of loosing the “magic” about it. The arts are per se a creative context so why bother defining it, describing it, or even researching it? It just is. In this chapter, I discuss this tension and provide examples of work that gives creativity a voice in Music Teacher Education.
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Houmann, A. (2017). Creativity in Music Education? The Wild Card That Got Stuck in the Deck. In: Beghetto, R., Sriraman, B. (eds) Creative Contradictions in Education. Creativity Theory and Action in Education, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21924-0_16
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