Researching Creative Learning: Methods and Issues

ISBN-13: 9780415548854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 214 str.

Patrick Thomson

Opis

It is a common ambition in society and government to make young people more creative. These aspirations are motivated by two key concerns: to make experience at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic; and to ensure that young people are able and fit to leave education and contribute to the creative economy that will underpin growth in the twenty-first century.

Transforming these common aspirations into informed practice is not easy. It can mean making many changes:

• turning classrooms into more exciting experiences;
• introducing more thoughtful challenges into the curriculum;
• making teachers into different kinds of instructors;
• finding more authentic assessment processes;
• putting young people s voices at the heart of learning.

There are programmes, projects and initiatives that have consistently attempted to offer such change and transformation. The UK programme Creative Partnerships is the largest of these, but there are significant initiatives in many other parts of the world today, including France, Norway, Canada and the United States. This book not only draws on this body of expertise but also consolidates it, making it the first methodological text exploring creativity.

Creative teaching and learning is often used as a site for research and action research, and this volume is intended to act as a textbook for this range of courses and initiatives. The book will be a key text for research in creative teaching and learning and is specifically directed at ITE, CPD, Masters and doctoral students."

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