Creative Learning in the Primary School

ISBN-13: 9780415464710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 192 str.

Bob Jeffrey;Peter Woods

Opis

The authors use ethnographic research to consider the features of creative teaching and learning within the context of contemporary policy reforms. The blend of case-study material and implications for practice make this book attractive to primary teachers, school managers, policy makers, teacher educators and researchers.

Creative Learning in the Primary School presents a comprehensive analysis of the field of creative teaching and learning by reflecting on its main features and contextualising contemporary policy reforms and international initiatives. In doing so, chapters bring together theory and the findings of extensive empirical research to explore the importance of creative teaching and learning from the learner’s perspective.

The book begins by focussing on the key features of creative teaching: relevance, control, ownership and innovation. The authors devote a chapter to each of these aspects, exploring their nature and importance in terms of their how they enhance learning.

Using detailed research into how schools have responded to policy reforms and new initiatives over the last ten years, chapters focus specifically on:

• how learners experience creative teaching
• how it is transformed into creative learning
• how learners creatively manage testing, assessments and the development of performativity cultures in their schools

This book will be a valuable resource for teachers, trainee, teachers, teacher educators, educational academics and policy makers.

Spis treści

Introduction
Section A The nature of creative learning
Chapter 1 The relevance of creative teaching: Learners’ views
Chapter 2 Control of learning
Chapter 3 Ownership of practice
Chapter 4 Innovation
Section B Creating opportunities for creative learning
Chapter 5 Achieving breakthroughs in learning: Students as critical others
Chapter 6 Countering learner ‘instrumentalism’ through creative mediation
Chapter 7 Recovering creativity teaching and learning: using critical events
Chapter 8 Reintroducing creativity: becoming a ‘particularly successful school’
Chapter 9 The future of creative learning
References

O autorze

Bob Jeffrey, Peter Woods