This text discusses: the function of evaluation in general; the role of formal assessment and its relation with informal evaluation; the role of the audience for the creative product; the value of making within the subject discipline; the balance within the subject paid to product and process; and the role of reflection and the place of the students voice. Examples of practice from subject disciplines such as English, art, music, drama, media studies, design and technology, gallery education and digital arts should enable those involved with primary, secondary, further, higher, gallery and...

This text discusses: the function of evaluation in general; the role of formal assessment and its relation with informal evaluation; the role of the audience for the creative product; the value of making within the subject discipline; the balance within the subject paid to product and process; and the role of reflection and the place of the students voice. Examples of practice from subject disciplines such as English, art, music, drama, media studies, design and technology, gallery education and digital arts should enable those involved with primary, secondary, further, higher, gallery and...

This volume describes ways in which ICTs may be creating new possiblities for creative work both within the formal curriculum and in complementary educational sites. It provides a series of case studies documenting the use of digital arts across school and community arts curriculum, written by experienced practitioners in the field. The book demonstrates how ICTs can be used in a genuinely inter-disciplinary way, and also recognizes that good practice is developing slowly through some genuinely innovative work in schools. The book is aimed at those teachers, curriculum co-ordinators,...

In recent years, the place of popular culture within the school curriculum has become an increasingly controversial political issue. Academic studies of media audiences have questioned the view of young people as passive victims of ideological manipulation and the behaviourist notions of effects on which they are often based.

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.

The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making learning more creative. This applies at individual, classroom, or whole school level, always with the aim of fully realising young people's potential. Until now there has been no single text bringing together the significant literature that explores the dimensions of creative learning, despite the work of artists in schools and the development of a...

This book explores how 'learning identities' are forged through complex interplays between young people and their communities.