Artistically creative decision-making of undergraduate college students in a media arts course
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2022
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University of Delaware
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Artistic creativity and creative thinking help students solve problems in and out of the classroom as well as develop skills to adapt to their changing world. Artistically creative decision-making has been largely unexplored at the collegiate levels. As a result, many undergraduate students are not able to develop their artistic creativity in an academic setting. Undergraduate students' participation in artistic creativity can provide a more individualized and meaningful musical experience allowing for deeper connections with the arts. Teachers can provide students with powerful, artistically creative experiences in the classroom that can translate to lifelong musical participation and connection. Conclusions from this study provide a more complete understanding of one undergraduate student's artistically creative decision-making. The student in this study made artistically creative decisions according to internal and external influences, access to media arts tools, and a product-oriented view of creativity. These conclusions will inform pedagogical practice and curriculum development of media arts in higher education and add to the limited research in pedagogical practices for facilitating artistic creativity and artistic decision-making in higher education as well as provide suggestions for future research.
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Artistic creativity, Creative thinking