Policy and music education: A "new" culture of "creativity"?

This chapter examines the background for the more recent resurgence in thinking about creativity and considers some of the ways in which creativity has been viewed over the last 100 years. We ask where this latest impetus has come from, how is it manifesting itself and what are the implications for music education. We also investigate the ways in which the development and assessment of creativity is being presented at the policy level in curriculum documents and the implications of these models for music education.