Enhancing children's creative practical ability through emotionally motivated music teaching
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: We used a quasi-experimental design to examine the potential of a new framework we developed, called emotionally motivated music teaching (EMMT), to cultivate creative engagement in children's musical abilities through specific musical tasks. The sample comprised 86 fourth-grade students, who completed either a 12-lesson EMMT intervention (experimental group) or a 12-lesson traditional music curriculum (control group). We conducted analyses of variance to assess children's pretest and posttest scores on the Assessing Children's Creative Practice Ability in Music Scale, which evaluates multiple dimensions of musical creativity. At posttest the experimental group scored significantly higher than the control group on all five assessed dimensions of musical creativity. These findings provide music educators with evidence-based strategies for fostering creativity through emotionally resonant teaching. Future research could refine the EMMT and observe its effects on students at different grade levels to address the limitations of the current study.
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.15265
Authors: He Jiang, Henghua Wang, Ku Wing Cheong, Wee Hoe Tan
Institutions: Guangzhou University, Guangxi Minzu University, UCSI University
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4416675109
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