Personal Growth
The idea of personal growth is tightly connected to lifelong learning:
- Optimizing the individual repertoire of actions and social behavior (social competence). The perception for the need to change comes with growing experience.
- Human development is constantly changing over a life’s period. A teaching/facilitating person must take account of these circumstances.
- Process orientation has to be fostered. Volition to learn is crucial for success.
Community musicians recognize that the participants’ social well-being and personal growth are as important as their musical development, and therefore advocate lifelong musical learning.