The Participatory Creativity Guide for Educators

ISBN-13: 9780367678272 / Miękka / 2024 / 256 str.

Julie Rains

Opis

Offering an embracing approach to creativity that encompasses invention and innovation, this practical guide reframes creativity as a mode of experience that all young people and adults have the opportunity to participate in.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures

Meet the Authors

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1: Introduction

What is Participatory Creativity?

The What, Why, and, How of Participatory Creativity

Participatory Creativity in Practice

Meet the Authors

Who Should Read this Book?

How to Use this Book

A Roadmap to the Journey Ahead

 

Chapter 2: Participatory Creativity 101

The Problem with Traditional, Individual-based Understandings of Creativity

Moving Towards a Sociocultural Understanding of Creativity

What Makes Participatory Creativity Different from Other Brands of Sociocultural Creativity Theory

So, What Makes Participatory Creativity Creative?

Why Reframe Creativity as a Distributed and Participatory Process?

The Four Key Concepts of Participatory Creativity

Popular Pitfalls and Misconceptions

 

Chapter 3: Establishing a Participatory Creativity Classroom

What Does a Participatory Creativity Classroom Look Like?

The Twelve Practices of Participatory Creativity

According to Whom?, For Whom?, and Who am I?

 

Chapter 4: Participatory Creativity in Action

Finding Future Potential in Past Histories

Fostering Creative Identity Development

Participatory Creativity in the Culturally Responsive Classroom

Identifying Roles for Oneself and Others

How Did We Participate Today?

Socially Constructing the Origins of Us

The Strange Ducks Club—Teaching and Learning (and Other Weird Things that Happen) in a Sandbox

Amplifying All Voices in the Creative Classroom

A Participatory Approach to Assessment

Empowering Representation: The Girls of the Crescent

What’s Your Story?

 

Chapter 5: The Participatory Creativity Toolkit

Socially Distributed Idea Development

            Stakeholder Mapping

Successes, Challenges, Contributions, Actions

The Stories of Us

What’s Cooking?—and How Can I Help?

Biography of an Idea

            From Individuals to Ideas

            Looking Backward to Move Forward

            Surface a Wonder, Follow a Wonder

Concept of Role

            Values, Needs, Trust

            Attitudes, Attributes, Actions

Profiles of Participation

            Participation Tracker

            Participation Mapping

Using Pedagogical Tools in Your Context

 

Chapter 6: Conclusion

The Future Potentials of the Creative Classroom

The Next Frontiers for Participatory Creativity

Notes

Bibliography and References

O autorze

Edward P. Clapp, Ed. D. is a principal investigator at Project Zero and a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Julie Rains is a long-time educator and the current instructional innovation program consultant for Rochester Community Schools in Rochester, Michigan. Julie facilitates a variety of in-person and online professional learning experiences through her work with Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.