Educating for Creativity Within Higher Education: Integration of Research Into Media Practice

ISBN-13: 9783319906737 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Phillip McIntyre; Janet Fulton; Elizabeth Paton

Opis

This book provides innovative insights into how creativity can be taught within higher education. Preparing students for employment in a dynamic set of global creative industries requires those students to not only be resilient and entrepreneurial, but also to be locally focused while being globally aware. Therefore it is imperative that they acquire a thorough understanding of creative processes and practice as they try to keep pace with worldwide digital trends. As the creation of media messages is a fundamental aspect of global creative industries, and that numerous concerns practitioners face are based upon a certain understanding of creativity, the authors propose an exploration of what creativity is in terms of research, and then apply it pedagogically. Drawing on extensive empirical research, the authors pose the thought-provoking question of whether creativity can be taught. This volume will be of interest to both students and scholars of creativity and higher education as well as to creatively-based practitioners more widely.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Setting the Scene

Chapter 2. Deep Background to the Project

Chapter 3. The Evolution of a Psychology of Creativity

Chapter 4. Towards a Sociology of Creativity

Chapter 5. Confluence Approaches and the Systems Model of Creativity

Chapter 6. Creativity, Education and the Systems Approach

Chapter 7. Developing Curriculum and Courses Using Systems Centred Learning (SCL).- Chapter 8. The Undergraduate Experience of SCL: The Core and the Media Production Major

Chapter 9. The Media Production Project: Integrating Theory with Practice

Chapter 10. Adapting Systems Centred Learning for Other Institutional Settings

Chapter 11. Creativity and the Postgraduate Experience

Chapter 12. Implications of a Systems Centred Learning Approach

O autorze

Phillip McIntyre is Associate Professor in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Janet Fulton is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Elizabeth Paton is Senior Research Associate at Monash University, Australia and Sessional Academic in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Susan Kerrigan is Associate Professor in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Michael Meany is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Blurb

Creativity, Education and the Arts Series Editor: Anne Harris, RMIT, Australia

This book provides innovative insights into how creativity can be taught within higher education. Preparing students for employment in a dynamic set of global creative industries requires those students to not only be resilient and entrepreneurial, but also to be locally focused while being globally aware. Therefore it is imperative that they acquire a thorough understanding of creative processes and practice as they try to keep pace with worldwide digital trends. As the creation of media messages is a fundamental aspect of global creative industries, and that numerous concerns practitioners face are based upon a certain understanding of creativity, the authors propose an exploration of what creativity is in terms of research, and then apply it pedagogically. Drawing on extensive empirical research, the authors pose the thought-provoking question of whether creativity can be taught. This volume will be of interest to both students and scholars of creativity and higher education as well as to creatively-based practitioners more widely. Phillip McIntyre is Associate Professor in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Janet Fulton is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Elizabeth Paton is Senior Research Associate at Monash University, Australia and Sessional Academic in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Susan Kerrigan is Associate Professor in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Michael Meany is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Phillip McIntyre is Associate Professor in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia. 

Janet Fulton is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Elizabeth Paton is Senior Research Associate at Monash University, Australia and Sessional Academic in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia. 

Susan Kerrigan is Associate Professor in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia. 

Michael Meany is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Newcastle, Australia.