Theme and variations: Composing and online music teaching and learning

Abstract

This article is a reflective discussion of five themes relating to composing and online music teaching in higher education. The collection of themes aims to provide supportive ideas form online music teachers in preservice generalist teacher education. The first theme is about composing and wellbeing, an emergent outcome from my current and ongoing practitioner research into an improvisation-based approach to playing the ukulele. The second theme discusses findings from by doctoral study that may support preservice teachers to foster children’s creative processes in music education. The third theme is an exploration of a poignant similarity between self-directed learning in creative process ..