Module EFPM303 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EFPM303: Creativity and Education Futures
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
The aim of the module is to explore various distinct theories of creativity and education futures, and the interfaces between these, and to consider their manifestation in practical settings. The module therefore includes seminar discussion as well as time spent in practical activities. Sometimes working with EFPM265 Arts and Educational Futures students you will reflect critically and creatively on issues relating to pedagogy, learning, curriculum and assessment and how these manifest differently in different contexts and disciplines. You will develop critical consideration of how the digital revolution transforms issues faced by educators and learners in formal education systems, in nurturing creativity especially in relation to changing visions of childhood, the role of student voice and alternative forms of schooling. Where appropriate you will be encouraged to relate these back to your own practice or that of those with whom you work/are connected in order that you relate ideas directly into the context within which you most actively practice.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate systematic knowledge and critical awareness of theories and concepts in the field of creativity in particular as applied to education informed by your reading and professional practice; 2. demonstrate systematic knowledge and critical awareness of theories and concepts in the field of education futures informed by your reading and professional practice; 3. demonstrate an ability to evaluate critically theories of creativity and education futures for curriculum, learning, pedagogy and assessment; 4. demonstrate an ability to evaluate critically policy and practice in creativity and education futures; 5. demonstrate an ability to evaluate critically methodologies for exploring creativity in relation to education futures; |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 6. explore critically the multiple lenses through which creativity and education futures can be interpreted and developed; 7. identify systematically and evaluate insightfully the influences of these perspectives in the broader literature and research; 8. evaluate and critique ideas and concepts encountered on the course in the light of these different theoretical approaches; 9. apply theoretical insights, through critical reflection, to your study; |
| Personal and Key Skills | 10. demonstrate the ability to reflect independently, critically and creatively on professional practice; 11. demonstrate the ability to plan for professional development in creativity and education futures drawing on this independent, critical and creative reflection on practice; 12. demonstrate the ability to identify and critically discuss issues in creativity and education futures; 13. demonstrate the ability to manage time and engagement in the context of masters level study that has a high level of independent study; 14. demonstrate the ability to take the initiative in contributing collaboratively in interactive learning contexts; and 15. demonstrate communication skills both oral and written and in on-line contexts. |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Banaji, S. & Burn, A. (2010) (2ndedition) The Rhetorics of Creativity: A Review of the Literature, London, Arts CouncilEngland. http
://www.creativitycultureeducation.org/research-impact/exploreresearch/the-rhetorics-of-creativity-a-literature-review,58,RAR.html
Beghetto, R. A., & Kaufman, J. C. (2007). Toward a broader conception of creativity: A case for 'mini-c' creativity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 1(2), 73-79
Boden, M. (2004) The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, (2nded) London: Routledge
Chappell, K (2008) Towards Humanising Creativity. UNESCO Observatory E-Journal 1(3), http://
www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/unesco/ejournal/pdf/chappell.pdf
Chappell and Craft (2011). Creative Learning Conversations: Producing Living Dialogic Spaces. Educational Research 53(3), 363-385
Chappell, K., Craft, A., Rolfe, L. & Jobbins, V. (2009). Dance Partners for Creativity. Special Issue Research In Dance Education on Creativity. 10 (3) Nov 2009: 177-198
Chappell, K., with Craft, A. R., Rolfe, L., & Jobbins, V. (2012). Humanizing creativity: Valuing our journeys of becoming. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 13(8). Retrieved [28 Nov 2013] from http://www.ijea.org/v13n8/.
Cochrane, P., Craft, A., Jeffery, G. (2008). Mixed messages or permissions and opportunities? Reflections on current policy perspectives in education. In Sefton-Green, J. (Ed), Creative Learning. London: Creative Partnerships.
Craft, A. (2001). Creativity Across the Primary Curriculum. London: Routledge
Craft, A. (2005). Creativity in Education: tensions and dilemmas. Abingdon: RoutledgeFalmer
Craft, A. (2009), Changes in the Landscape: Creativity in Primary Schools, in Wilson, A. (Ed), Creativity in Primary Education: Theory and Practice, Learning Matters
Craft, A. (2008). Tensions in Creativity and Education: Enter Wisdom and Trusteeship?In Craft, A., Gardner, H., Claxton, G. (Eds). Creativity, Trusteeship and Wisdom: exploring the role of education. Thousand Oaks:Corwin Press
Craft, A. (2011), Creativity and Educational Futures. Stoke on Trent:Trentham Books
Craft (2012) Childhood in a digital age: creative challenges for educational futures. London Review of Education. Vol. 10, No. 2, July 2012, 173–190
Craft, A. (2013). Childhood, possibility thinking and wise, humanising educational futures, International Journal of Educational Research 61 (2013) 126–134.
Craft A., Jeffrey, B. & Leibling, M. (2001). Creativity in Education. London: Continuum
Cziksentmihalyi, M. (1996) Creativity, Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. London: Harper Collins
David Wood Consultants (2012). Creative Partnerships Change Schools Programme Synoptic Evaluation 2011. Newcastle: Creativity, Culture and Education.
DfEE. (1999) All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education. National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education.
DfES (2000) The National Curriculum. (all subjects) London, DfES [and later revisions eg KS3 implemented 2008, and EYFS implemented same year]
Doherty,P. & Harland,J. (2002) Partnerships for Creativity: an evaluation of implementation. Slough, NFER Facer, K., Craft, A., Jewitt, C., Mauger, S., Sandford, R., Sharples, M. (2011).Building Agency in the Face of
Uncertainty. Outcome of ESRC Seminar Series on Educational Futures (2009-11) –
http://edfuturesresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Building-Agency-in-the-Face-of-Uncertainty-Thinking-Tool.pdf (16 Nov 2011)
Fishkin et al (Eds) (1999) Investigating Creativity in Youth: research and methods. Cresswell NJ: Hampton Press
Fryer,M.(1996) Creative Teaching and Learning. London: Chapman
Gardner, H. (1993) Frames of Mind. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. London: Fontana.
Grainger, T., Burnard, P., Craft, A. (2006) Pedagogy and possibility thinking in the Early Years. Thinking Skills and
Creativity. 1(2), 26–38.
Inayatullah, S. (2008). Mapping Educational Futures. In Bussey, M., Inayatullah, S., Milosevic, I. (eds). (2008). Alternative Educational Futures: pedagogies for emergent worlds. Rotterdam/Taipei: Sense Publishers
John-Steiner, V. (2000). Creative Collaboration. New York: Oxford University Press
Leadbeater, C. (2009). We-think: mass innovation not mass production (2nd edition). London: Profile Books Ltd Moran, S. (2010) Creativity in School, in in K. Littleton, C. Wood & J. Kleine Staarman, The International Handbook of Psychology in Education. Bingly, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (1999). All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and
Education. Sudbury, Suffolk: DfEE
Robinson, K (2001) Out of Our Minds. Capstone
Rolfe, L. (2011) The development of partnership based pedagogies.In Chappell, K., Rolfe, L., Craft, A., Jobbins, V. (2011). Close Encounters. Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books.
Sawyer, K. (2006) Explaining creativity: The science of human innovation. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sawyer, K. (2007) Group Genius: The creative power of collaboration. New York: Basic Books.
Scaltsas, T., Stenning, K., Constantine Alexopoulos, C. (2014) Creative emotional reasoning: computational tools fostering co-creativity in learning processes. C2Learn project: in draft project deliverable.
Sternberg, R.J. (1988) The Nature of Creativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sternberg, R.J. & Lubart, T.I. (1999). The concept of creativity: prospects and paradigms. In R.J. Sternberg (ed). Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
