dc.description.abstract | ABSTRACT -
The fields of sports, business, education and other organizational fields have for many decades invested considerable time and resources in research investigating quality of motivation, use of goal setting in relation to performance efficacy and social and personal well-being. Paradoxically, this research has barely been considered in relation to music education and performance sciences. The present theoretical article will present and elaborate goal-setting and self-determination theories in relation to music practice and performance highlighting potential benefits and pitfalls in the context of higher music education. In so doing, the connection between goals, social contexts, motivational quality, and instrumental practice/ performance will be presented, discussed, and elaborated from theoretical and practical perspectives. Besides actualizing motivational perspectives in the field of research in music education, the present article was especially written with the goal of enlightening the field of higher music education (i.e., music performance students, educators/professors) introducing ways of facilitating motivation and deliberate working habits.
Keywords: goal setting, self-determination, motivation, instrumental practice, music acquisition | nb_NO |