Dr Victor FUNG
cvfung@arts.usf.edu
Professor of Music Education
University of South Florida, USA

Dr Fung is Professor of Music Education at the University of South Florida and a Board Member of the International Society for Music Education. He holds a PhD. in music education from Indiana University. His research has been focused on psychology of music, multicultural issues in music education, and international perspectives of music education. He has research articles published in numerous academic journals and has given over fifty presentations at conferences in Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania. In addition, he has served on the editorial boards of three professional journals in arts education and music education.

The world is not our limit, it is only the beginning

Learning about the truths of the world is the beginning, not an end, of education. Studies suggest that being creative is not simply doing things that no one has done before. Creativity must be based on a firm foundation of knowledge in some truths in the existing world. What we know of the world is the foundation for creativity. Our educational paradigm must expand beyond learning the truths of the world.

Our educational community does not always facilitate growth in creativity. For example, in educational assessment, the most valued scores accountable for educational systems are those geared toward knowledge about the truths of the existing world. Subjects such as art, dance, music, and theatre are either not being assessed or not being part of the accountability measure. Worse yet, sometimes, assessments in creative subjects are assessed as if they are non-creative matters.

Victor FUNG博士

馮博士是南佛羅里達大學的音樂教授。他曾發表許多關於音樂教育以發展音樂教育的多元文化問題等文章。

「世界只是創意的開始而非界限」

學習世界上的知識和真理只是起點而非終極。創意的基礎在某程度上是對知識和真理的認知，但年輕人在發揮創作力時卻需超越此層面，因此教育也必須跳出現時學習範式的框框。有創意才有文明，創意更是基本人權。