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 Content
Syllabus Plan
The precise structure of the module varies each year according to the teaching team and student interest but in general around a third of the module’s sessions explore the theoretical landscape of creativity and education futures with particular reference to the notion of radical uncertainty and possible responses to this.The remaining two thirds of the sessions explore practical application of these theoretical perspectives and consider implications for individuals, institutions and systems.
Key issues include
- How creativity can be understood, with a focus on ‘little c creativity’ from a wise, humanizing perspective
- Changing childhoods: guiding discourses and key principles
- Approaches to working in partnership to nurture creativity including the roles played by cultural venues and providers
- Boundaries between education, arts and community in relation to pedagogy in particular
- Learner voice and participation in educational futures
- Transformative education and learner voice
- Implications of responses to radical uncertainty for individuals, institutions and systems.
The module seeks to enable you to synthesise creativity, the arts and educational futures through active reflection on practice and theory. Independent, collaborative and peer to peer learning is also encouraged.
Core staff are joined by visiting lecturers who specialize in the applied areas such as arts-education partnership, student voice and participation; a visit is also made to a local cultural venue either in Exeter or ‘local’ to distance students around which critical activities and thinking occur (face-to- face or online as appropriate).
This module descriptor captures two modes of delivery: campus-based (C) and distance (D). In the Learning and Teaching section below there are two sets of numbers: one pertains to campus-based delivery and one to distance delivery. Students enrolled on the distance mode will be expected to undertake more independent guided study than those on the campus-based mode.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 29 (C) 15 (D) | 271 (C) 285 (D) | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and teaching | 26(C) | 4 recorded lectures (45 minutes each), 5 seminars (face to face or online 2 hrs each), 3 sessions based on practice (2 hrs each), 3 expectations to contribute to online debate with tutors + peers for 1 hr within a given week, 2 cross group online student presentations with tutor feedback and debate (lasting 2 hrs each) |
| Scheduled Learning and teaching | 12(D) | 4 recorded lectures (45 minutes), 1 session based on practice (2 hrs), 3 expectations to contribute to online debate with tutors for 1 hr within a given week, 2 cross group online student presentations with tutor and peer feedback and debate (lasting 2 hrs each) |
| Scheduled Learning and teaching | 3(C & D) | Supervision by academic tutor, face to face or online. |
| Guided independent study | 81 (C) | Directed study: preparation reading texts and preparing critiques for above detailed learning and teaching activities |
| Guided independent study | 60 (D) | Directed study: preparation reading texts and preparing critiques for above detailed learning and teaching activities |
| Guided independent study | 35 (D) | Online directed tasks to study key aspects of creativity and education futures |
| Guided independent study | 90 (C & D) | Assignment preparation |
| Guided independent study | 100 (C & D) | Self-directed study related to module including self-guided reading and reflective writing in relation to core module themes |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
