Creativity and Learning in Secondary English Teaching for a Creative Classroom
Creativity in secondary English lessons today is a democratically conceived quality that all pupils are expected to achieve and a resource on which all are entitled to draw. But what exactly is creativity? And how does it relate to English? Creativity and Learning in Secondary English answers these...
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Routledge
2012
Taylor and Francis Taylor & Francis Group |
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| Abstract | Creativity in secondary English lessons today is a democratically conceived quality that all pupils are expected to achieve and a resource on which all are entitled to draw. But what exactly is creativity? And how does it relate to English? Creativity and Learning in Secondary English answers these questions, and others, by arguing for a version of creativity that sees it as an ordinary, everyday part of successful classroom practice, central to processes of meaning-making, dialogic interaction and textual engagement. In this construction, creativity is not just linked to learning; it is the driving force behind learning itself, offering pupils the opportunity to transform their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
This book borrows from a range of theories about creativity and about learning, while remaining largely practical in focus. It contains numerous examples for teachers of how to apply ideas about creativity in the classroom. In doing so, it attempts to maintain the subject's core identity while also keeping abreast of contemporary social, pedagogical and technological developments. The result is a refreshing challenge to some of the more mundane approaches to English teaching on offer in an age focussed excessively on standardisation and teaching to tests.
Practical applications of creativity include:
Using picture books and graphic novels to stimulate multimodal responses
Placing pupils in the role of the teacher
Devising marketing campaigns for class novels
Adopting experimental approaches to redrafting
Encouraging 'extreme' forms of re-creative writing
Focusing on how to 'listen' to texts
Creating sound-scapes for poems
Thought-provoking and provocative, this textbook draws on current best practic |
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| AbstractList | Creativity in secondary English lessons today is a democratically conceived quality that all pupils are expected to achieve and a resource on which all are entitled to draw. But what exactly is creativity? And how does it relate to English? Creativity and Learning in Secondary English answers these questions, and others, by arguing for a version of creativity that sees it as an ordinary, everyday part of successful classroom practice, central to processes of meaning-making, dialogic interaction and textual engagement. In this construction, creativity is not just linked to learning; it is the driving force behind learning itself, offering pupils the opportunity to transform their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
This book borrows from a range of theories about creativity and about learning, while remaining largely practical in focus. It contains numerous examples for teachers of how to apply ideas about creativity in the classroom. In doing so, it attempts to maintain the subject's core identity while also keeping abreast of contemporary social, pedagogical and technological developments. The result is a refreshing challenge to some of the more mundane approaches to English teaching on offer in an age focussed excessively on standardisation and teaching to tests.
Practical applications of creativity include:
Using picture books and graphic novels to stimulate multimodal responses
Placing pupils in the role of the teacher
Devising marketing campaigns for class novels
Adopting experimental approaches to redrafting
Encouraging 'extreme' forms of re-creative writing
Focusing on how to 'listen' to texts
Creating sound-scapes for poems
Thought-provoking and provocative, this textbook draws on current best practice in English teaching and will equip trainee and practising teachers with a wide range of strategies that will lead to greater creativity in the classroom. Creativity in secondary English lessons today is a democratically conceived quality that all pupils are expected to achieve and a resource on which all are entitled to draw. But what exactly is creativity? And how does it relate to English? Creativity and Learning in Secondary English answers these questions, and others, by arguing for a version of creativity that sees it as an ordinary, everyday part of successful classroom practice, central to processes of meaning-making, dialogic interaction and textual engagement. In this construction, creativity is not just linked to learning; it is the driving force behind learning itself, offering pupils the opportunity to transform their knowledge and understanding of the world around them. This book borrows from a range of theories about creativity and about learning, while remaining largely practical in focus. It contains numerous examples for teachers of how to apply ideas about creativity in the classroom. In doing so, it attempts to maintain the subject’s core identity while also keeping abreast of contemporary social, pedagogical and technological developments. The result is a refreshing challenge to some of the more mundane approaches to English teaching on offer in an age focussed excessively on standardisation and teaching to tests. Practical applications of creativity include: Using picture books and graphic novels to stimulate multimodal responses Placing pupils in the role of the teacher Devising marketing campaigns for class novels Adopting experimental approaches to redrafting Encouraging ‘extreme’ forms of re-creative writing Focusing on how to ‘listen’ to texts Creating sound-scapes for poems Thought-provoking and provocative, this textbook draws on current best practice in English teaching and will equip trainee and practising teachers with a wide range of strategies that will lead to greater creativity in the classroom. Introduction Section One 1. English and creativity: a brief history 2. Theories of creativity, English and learning Section Two 3. Creativity, English and modality 4. Creativity as re-creativity 5. Creativity and the class novel 6. Listening, reading and creativity 7. Speaking, writing and creativity 8. Critical-creativity 9. Creativity and culture Conclusion 10. Creativity and not learning References Andrew McCallum is Senior Lecturer in Education and Course Leader for Secondary English with Media and Drama at London Metropolitan University. Creativity in secondary English lessons today is a democratically conceived quality that all pupils are expected to achieve and a resource on which all are entitled to draw. But what exactly is creativity? And how does it relate to English? Creativity and Learning in Secondary English answers these questions, and others, by arguing for a version of creativity that sees it as an ordinary, everyday part of successful classroom practice, central to processes of meaning-making, dialogic interaction and textual engagement. In this construction, creativity is not just linked to learning; it is the driving force behind learning itself, offering pupils the opportunity to transform their knowledge and understanding of the world around them. This book borrows from a range of theories about creativity and about learning, while remaining largely practical in focus. It contains numerous examples for teachers of how to apply ideas about creativity in the classroom. In doing so, it attempts to maintain the subject's core identity while also keeping abreast of contemporary social, pedagogical and technological developments. The result is a refreshing challenge to some of the more mundane approaches to English teaching on offer in an age focussed excessively on standardisation and teaching to tests. Practical applications of creativity include: Using picture books and graphic novels to stimulate multimodal responses Placing pupils in the role of the teacher Devising marketing campaigns for class novels Adopting experimental approaches to redrafting Encouraging 'extreme' forms of re-creative writing Focusing on how to 'listen' to texts Creating sound-scapes for poems Thought-provoking and provocative, this textbook draws on current best practic This book borrows from a range of theories about creativity and about learning, while remaining largely practical in focus. It contains numerous examples for teachers of how to apply ideas about creativity in the classroom. In doing so, it attempts to maintain the subject's core identity while also keeping abreast of contemporary social, pedagogical and technological developments. The result is a refreshing challenge to some of the more mundane approaches to English teaching on offer in an age focussed excessively on standardisation and teaching to tests. |
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| TableOfContents | Front Cover -- Creativity and Learning in Secondary English -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Image credits -- Introduction -- A summary of content -- Part I: The role of creativity in English -- 1. English and creativity: A brief history -- Beginnings: rationing creativity -- Continuation: creativity helps you grow -- Re-orientation: the creativity of everyday life -- Rupture: deconstructing creativity -- Re-construction 1: from critical literacy to a new aesthetic -- Re-construction 2: creativity and genre -- Re-construction 3: multimodality -- Conclusion -- Key texts -- 2. Theories of creativity, English and learning -- Evolutionary creativity -- Linguistic creativity -- Literary creativity -- Ordinary creativity and making meaning -- Conclusion -- Key texts -- Part II: Creativity and the English curriculum -- 3. Creativity, English and modality -- Re-positioning the verbal -- Images and words -- Reading images -- Combining words and still images in children's picturebooks -- Exploring the mode of sound -- Conclusion -- Key texts -- 4. Creativity as re-creativity -- Developing a theory of re-creativity -- From re-telling to re-writing -- Writer-response: an alternative form of reading -- Re-creativity and possible worlds -- Extreme re-creativity -- Conclusion -- Key texts -- 5. Creativity and the class novel -- What is the creativity of the novel and why is it important to English? -- Extending the vocabulary of creativity -- Vocabulary point no. 1: textualness/authoredness -- Vocabulary point no. 2: ethics/otherness -- Vocabulary point no. 3: text as event -- Creativity, class-readers and choice -- Conclusion -- Key texts -- 6. Listening, reading and creativity -- Reading with the ear -- Listening to how others read -- Critical listening: voice and the class reader -- Conclusion -- Key texts 7. Speaking, writing and creativity -- Links between speaking and writing -- Differences between speaking and writing -- Conclusion -- Key texts -- 8. Critical-creativity -- A critique of critique -- Bringing creativity and criticality together -- Paulo Freire: critical literacy, creativity and praxis -- Key concepts in Freire's idea of praxis -- P.E.E.: limiting criticality and creativity -- Critical-creativity and wholeness -- Newspaper work: from a skills-based to a critical-creative approach -- Students as teachers: critical-creativity and role-play -- Re-drafting as a critical-creative process -- Conclusion -- Key texts -- 9. Creativity and culture -- The creativity of a common culture -- From a common culture to multiculturalism -- Multiculturalism and idioculture -- What has all this to do with English and creativity? -- Transforming cultures -- Using Manga Shakespeare -- The creativity of emerging cultures: gaming lessons for the non-gaming teacher -- Traditional text as hypertext -- Conclusion -- Key texts -- Conclusion: Creativity and not learning -- Assessment for not learning -- Not learning objectives -- Not a plenary -- Not literature -- Not a text type -- Not correctness -- Not describing -- Not vocabulary -- Not writing -- Not reading -- References -- Index |
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