Full Description
This book introduces the new term 'creativities' with cutting-edge examples of creativities research that has influenced the thinking and work of teachers and school leaders in their practice. Co-edited by one of the leading international experts in creativity and the arts, this book is packed with imaginative ideas and practical classroom suggestions underpinned by theory and research to help teachers become research-informed and research-generating.
Sculpting New Creativities in Primary Education will inspire us, invite us to think, and share ways in which research is informing and enabling a role for new and creative practices in primary education. Each chapter is collaboratively written by an academic and a practicing teacher covering areas such as: creative spaces, intercultural and interdisciplinary creativity, art, wellbeing, mathematics, STEM and leadership creativities. It importantly highlights the need to inspire, shape and unfold change-making practices that (re-)invigorate, (re-)empower, and (re-)position primary education practice.
Drawing from projects originally conducted both in the UK and beyond, this revolutionary book invites teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders to co-create ways to unlock research together as mutually informative ways of authoring change.
Contents
PART 1: SCULPTING PRIMARY SCHOOL CHANGE 1. Creativities of change in primary education 2. Using school corridors to support learning: spatial creativity driving primary education 3. Storying the journey to new spaces of intercultural creative learning 4. Animating primary schools, inside and out: enlivening learning through meaningful memory-making 5. Posthumanist creative ecologies in primary education PART 2: SCULPTING PRIMARY CURRICULUM CHANGE 6. Innovating change through creativities curricula 7. The Creative Pedagogue: Enacting Affective Pathways for Interdisciplinary Embodied Creativity in Primary Education 8. Activating creativities by emphasising health and wellbeing: a Holistic Pedagogical practice from Finland 9. Cultivating primary creativities in STEAM gardens PART 3: SCULPTING 'CHANGE' DIFFERENTLY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION 10. Unlocking creative leadership in the primary school 11. Learning at a Snail's Pace: 'What if' and 'What else' is happening in a South African primary classroom? 12. 'What can be otherwise' : Embodying a collective phronesis (or practical wisdom) for sculpting new creativities in primary education and beyond Afterword
