Researching Creative Learning : Methods and Issues

ISBN-13: 9780415548847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str.

Pat Thomson; Julian Sefton-Green

Opis

This title guides readers in making children more creative and explores creativity itself. Creative teaching and learning is often used as a site for research and action research, and this volume is intended to act as a text book for this range of courses and initiatives.

Recenzje

"This book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on research methodology, providing insightful and productive guidance on how creative learning might be studied and documented with diverse educational aims in mind." - International Journal of Education & the Arts, August 2011.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Section I: What are the Practices of Creative Learning?  2. Capturing the ‘Plaid’ Moment  3. From the Other Side of the Fence  4. What’s with the Artist?  5. Supporting Schools to do Action Research into Creative Learning  6. Towards the Creative Teaching of Mathematics  Section II: Can Researchers ‘See’ Creative Learning and Can Their Research Help Others to 'See' It?  7. A Conversation with Kathleen Gallagher  8. The Promise of Ethnography for Exploring Creative Learning  9. "Now it’s up to us to interpret it": ‘Youth Voice’ and Visual Methods  10. When Only the Visual Will Do  11. Less Elusive, More Explicit  12. Snapshots and Portraits  Section III: Can Creative Learning Be Measured and Evaluated?  13. Interview with John Harland  14. Quantitative Research on Creativity  15. From Voice to Choice  16. Research Methods for Web Two Dot Whoah  17. Baselines and Mosaics