A Pedagogy of Creation: Teaching Students to Communicate through Music [Hardcover]

In A Pedagogy of Creation: Teaching Students to Communicate through Music, Robert Kaddouch discusses his system of musical pedagogy which approaches the act of creation as an act of communication, coining the process of creating music as an act of conductivity. Kaddouch argues teaching music requires teaching students to communicate through their music, and defines four objectives teachers must adopt in order to understand their students and help them connect and conduct through the music they create.Robert Kaddouch is a pianist, a pedagogue, and a researcher.

All of Robert Kaddouch's pedagogical theory, which is so creative in his reflection on creation itself, can be seen as a new interpretation of the famous formula of Pindar taken over by Nietzsche: Become what you are. The pedagogy of creation developed by Kaddouch has an undeniable existential dimension, since it is a matter of realizing oneself by creating. This is the reason why this theory is articulated with a practice constantly present, Kaddouch being also and perhaps first of all an exceptional pedagogue of the musical creation. This also explains why this theory articulates centrally the concept of creation to that of communication: this is the meaning of what is here called conductibility. Jean-Hugues Barth?l?my, director of the CIDES (Paris), associated researcher at the University Paris-Nanterre

In Robert Kaddouchs book A Pedagogy of Creation: Teaching Students to Communicate through Music, readers discover how his piano lessons with Peter, Gary, and Elisabeth gave rise to a profound pedagogical theory and how he became an educator and theoretician of the ontogenesis of music. He discovered contact with sound in the young child leads, if the circumstances are favorable, from exploration to creation and creation, in music as in other arts, is sometimes a very solitary experience. Robert Kaddouch further observes and describes another aspect of creation: creation through communicl#C