Children’s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation: A Study of the ‘Improbasen’ Learning Centre

Contents

• 1. Introduction: Making the case for Improbasen;
• 2. Researching Improbasen;
• 3. A fungus system: Roles and rules in Improbasen;
• 4. 'Jazz is like slow carbs': Children's perspectives on learning jazz and improvisation;
• 5. The subject matter: Explicit teaching and learning;
• 6. The rhythmic scaffold: Implicit teaching and learning;
• 7. 'Then we can play together': inter-play, inter-nations;
• 8. Creative music pedagogy: Authenticity and childhood;
• 9. Children, jazz, and learning to improvise