The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning (The Routledge International Handbook Series)

504 Pages·2011·3.4 MB·English

by  Julian Sefton-Green

The Routledge International
Handbook of Creative Learning
Contemporary education systems are now concerned to make the experience of school more
relevant, challenging and innovative; and to equip young people who need to be able to
contributetotoday’sincreasinglycreativeeconomywhentheyleaveeducation.Inordertohelp
achievethisaimtheyhavebecomeincreasinglyinterestedincreativity,andincreativeapproaches
to learning. This collection addresses this concern. It brings together an impressive range of
international authors to address the values, philosophies, practices and strategies that realise the
engagement, participation, rigour and challenge offered through creative learning.
The International Handbook of Creative Learning is the first single text to draw together the
manydimensionsanddisciplinesofcreativelearningintoonecomprehensivevolume.Itfeatures
new research and newideas from experts within the field ofcreative teaching and learning; not
only from the UK but also from countries around the world, including France, Norway,
Canada,Australia,JapanandtheUnitedStates.Thebookaddressesarangeoftopicswhichinclude:
(cid:1) acomprehensiveguidetothevariedfieldofcreativelearning,aresourcethatenablesteachers
to become different kinds of instructors;
(cid:1) evaluativecasestudiesofeducationalreformshowingtheimpactithasonchildrenworldwide;
(cid:1) arts learningtraditions,including sub-sections on discrete art forms suchas drama and visual art;
(cid:1) policy change and reform ranging from individual schools to national curriculum;
(cid:1) the introduction of a more authentic assessment process.
This book strongly communicates the importance of bringing more thoughtful and vibrant
challengesintotheclassroomandwillbeaninvaluablemineofinformationforeducationstudents
and teachers, research academics and policy specialists.
JulianSefton-Greenisanindependentconsultantandresearcherworkingineducationandthe
cultural and creative industries. He is Special Professor of Education at the University of
Nottingham, UK.
PatThomsonisProfessorofEducationattheUniversityofNottingham,UK,anAdjunctProfessor
at the University of South Australia and a Visiting Professor at Deakin University, Australia.
Ken Jones is Professor of Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Liora Bresler is a Professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign, USA.
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The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning
Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Ken Jones and Liora Bresler
The Routledge
International Handbook of
Creative Learning
Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson,
Ken Jones and Liora Bresler
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Contents
List of illustrations x
Acknowledgements xii
Notes on contributors xiii
1 Introduction 1
Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Ken Jones and Liora Bresler
PARTI
Theories and histories: creative learning and its contexts 9
Julian Sefton-Green and Liora Bresler
2 Capitalism, creativity and learning: some chapters in a relationship 15
Ken Jones
3 The ‘transformative power’ of the arts: history of an idea 27
Eleonora Belfiore
4 Mapping the rhetorics of creativity 36
Shakuntala Banaji
5 Creativity of formulaic learning: pedagogy of imitation and repetition 45
Koji Matsunobu
6 Creativity and the arts in Chinese societies 54
Samuel Leong
7 Psychological research on creativity 63
Mark A. Runco and Alexander R. Pagnani
8 The cult of creativity: opposition, incorporation, transformation 72
Kirsten Drotner
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Contents
9 Democratic creativity 81
Ken Jones
10 Creativity, creative class, smart power, social reproduction and symbolic
violence 90
Bernard Darras
11 Creativity, the arts and the renewal of culture 99
Peter Abbs
12 ‘Creativity’ and its others: the ongoing project of definition, debate and
demonstration 107
Rob Pope
PARTII
Creativity, the arts and schools 117
Julian Sefton-Green and Pat Thomson
13 Artsinschoolsasachangemodel:educationfortheartsandaestheticexperience 119
Alain Kerlan
14 Approaches to creativity in education in the United Kingdom 129
Anna Craft
15 Constructing assessment for creative learning 140
Pamela Burnard
16 Approaches to promoting creativity in Chinese, Japanese and US preschools 150
Joseph Tobin, Akiko Hayashi and Jie Zhang
17 Contemporary aesthetic theory and models of creativity in visual arts
education in the United States 159
Tracie E. Costantino
18 Drama as creative learning 168
Jonothon Neelands
19 Learning in and through the arts 177
Mike Fleming
PARTIII
Creative curriculum and pedagogy 187
Ken Jones
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Contents
20 Curriculum integration and the disciplines of knowledge 193
James A. Beane
21 Ways of knowing and teaching: how teachers create valuable learning
opportunities (pedagogical capital) by making knowledge the means and not
just the ends in classrooms 200
Debra Hayes
22 English for an era of instability: aesthetics, ethics, creativity and design 211
Gunther Kress
23 Room 13 and the contemporary practice of artist-learners 217
Jeff Adams
24 The relationship between creativity and Studio Thinking 226
Lois Hetland and Ellen Winner
25 The gallery as a site for creative learning 234
Emily Pringle
26 Creative digital cultures: informal learning beyond the school 244
Julian Sefton-Green
27 Redesigning school spaces: creating possibilities for learning 253
Helen Nixon and Barbara Comber
28 Creative pedagogies and the contemporary school classroom 264
Michael Dezuanni and Anita Jetnikoff
29 ‘Real audience pedagogy’: creative learning and digital space 273
Julian McDougall and Dave Trotman
30 Reconciliation pedagogy, identity and community funds of knowledge:
borderwork in South African classrooms 283
Ana Ferreira and Hilary Janks
31 Miners, diggers, ferals and show-men: creative school–community projects 295
Pat Thomson
32 Alternatives in student assessment: the Cultural Competency Record (CCR) 304
Max Fuchs and Rolf Witte
33 Judgement, authority and legitimacy: evaluating creative learning 311
Julian Sefton-Green
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34 Creative learning 320
Grant Wiggins
PARTIV
Creative school and system change 333
Pat Thomson
35 Twenty-first century skills are on Mercury: learning, life and school reform 337
Andy Hargreaves
Part IV Editorial comment
Capacity building: introduction 347
Pat Thomson
36 Outsider | insiders: becoming a creative partner with schools 351
Nick Owen
37 The grit in the oyster: creative partners as catalysts for school reform in the
UK and the US 362
Arnold Aprill, Gail E. Burnaford and Pat Cochrane
38 The Cultural Rucksack in Norway: does the national model entail a
programme for educational change? 374
Jorunn Spord Borgen
39 From network learning to classroom teaching 383
Ann Lieberman and Diane R. Wood
40 Public policy partnerships for creative learning 393
David Holland
41 Professional learning for creative teaching and learning 404
Richard Hatcher
Part IV Editorial comment
Whole school change: introduction 415
Pat Thomson
42 Creativity in school design 417
Catherine Burke
43 What the arts can teach school reform 428
Michael G. Gunzenhauser and George W. Noblit
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Contents
44 Creativity in Scottish school curriculum and pedagogy 438
Moira Hulme, Ian Menter and James Conroy
45 The challenges of developing system-wide indicators of creativity reform: the
case of Creative Partnerships, UK 448
David Parker and Naranee Ruthra-Rajan
Part IV Conclusion
The importance of pedagogically focused leadership 459
Pat Thomson
Index 463
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