Postgraduate Module Descriptor


EFPM303: Creativity and Education Futures

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

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.