Full Description
This book considers the role and function of creativity for anchoring educational practices both in universities and beyond. Crucially, the educational practices in question model responsive, careful and attentive encounters with an unfolding present. Reinterpreting the ground-breaking creative processes of leading artists, writers, musicians and dancers, this book offers a toolkit of invitations and encounters that demonstrate how creativity can be practiced - and taught - as a competency that cultivates expertise in harnessing experiment, curiosity, somatic intuition and collaborative practices of world-building. In doing so, the book mounts a vital critical call for developing languages, approaches and methods in both digital and face-to-face learning environments that reconsider creativity as a literacy foundational to all learning settings. Vital to diverse disciplines, fields and professional sectors, this book boldly changes the conversation around the conspicuous role creativity takes in shaping our learning and teaching futures.
Contents
Preface: Encountering This Book
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
About the Authors
1 Teaching towards Creating (in) Slow Time
1 When Teaching Is Making
2 Why This Book Now?
3 How to Read This Book
4 Listening to the Itch
5 Creativity as a Literacy
6 Practitioner Profile: Charemaine Seet
2 Practising How to Pay Attention
1 Introduction
2 Going with the Flow
3 The Journey of Attention
4 Cultivating Tender Attentiveness
5 The Hum of Creativity
6 Practitioner Profile: Kirthana Selvaraj
3 Playing with Not-Knowing
1 Introduction
2 Ways We Play
3 Fostering a Playful Attitude: Following the Joy
4 Fostering a Playful Attitude: Combinatory Play
5 Creating a Playful Environment: Critical Distance
6 Conclusion
7 Practitioner Profile: Pablo Latona
4 Feeling Moving as Thinking
1 Introduction
2 Theorising Bodythinking
3 Conclusion
4 Practitioner Profile: Emma Maye Gibson
5 Interlude: An Invitation to Rest Workshop
1 Introduction
2 Creating the Conditions for Restful Play
3 Imaging the Restful Body
4 Building a Nest
5 Conclusion: Gifting Rest
6 Shifting Perspectives through Imaging
1 Introduction
2 Thinking in Images
3 Discovering through Images
4 Learning to See Differently: Disrupting Habits
5 Imaging to Facilitate Embodied Creative Practices
6 Imaging to Encounter the Other
7 Imaging to Reimagine: Wider Implications
8 Conclusion
9 Practitioner Profile: Victoria Hunt
10 Practitioner Profile: Karlie Noon
7 Modelling Imagination
1 Introduction
2 Modelling in Creative Practice
3 Teaching Interdisciplinary Creativity through Modelling
4 Practitioner Profile: Nathan Harrison
5 Practitioner Profile: Alice Osborne
8 Collaborating Outwards
1 Introduction
2 Collaboration in Creative Practice
3 Collaborative Classroom Experiments
4 Outwarding
5 Practitioner Profile: Riana Head-Toussaint
9 Futuring Learning in Ricochet Times
1 Futuring
2 Synthesising towards Outwarding
3 On the Precipice
4 Holding the Time
5 Practitioner Profile: Nitin Vengurlekar
Index
