The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning

• Main Authors: Julian Sefton-Green, Ken Jones, Liora Bresler, Pat Thomson
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2011; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
• Subjects: Arts in education; Creation (Literacy, artistic, etc.); Creative ability; Creative ability > Handbooks, manuals, etc; Creative ability in children; Creative thinking; Creative thinking > Handbooks, manuals, etc; Creativity; Education Policy; Educational Research; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Research Methods in Education; Current School Arrangements; Room 13s; education; Good Life; Studio Habits; young; Vice Versa; educator; Comparative International Process; Creative Learning; Julian Sefton Green; CP Programme; partnerships; South African High School Students; visual; Chinese Early Childhood Education; Common Language; Drawbacks; creativity; Guan Xi; art; Professional Development; Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem; Visual Art Education; people; QCA; Creative Partnerships; UK National Curriculum; Creative Practitioners; TRC Project; industries; Professional Learning Community; Creative Learning Approaches; behaviour; DBAE
• ISBN: 9780415817974; 0415548896; 9780415548892; 0415817978
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203817568

The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making learning more creative. This applies at individual,...

Table of Contents:

• 24 The relationship between creativity and Studio Thinking -- 25 The gallery as a site for creative learning -- 26 Creative digital cultures: informal learning beyond the school -- 27 Redesigning school spaces: creating possibilities for learning -- 28 Creative pedagogies and the contemporary school classroom -- 29 'Real audience pedagogy': creative learning and digital space -- 30 Reconciliation pedagogy, identity and community funds of knowledge: borderwork in South African classrooms -- 31 Miners, diggers, ferals and show-men: creative school-community projects -- 32 Alternatives in student assessment: the Cultural Competency Record (CCR) -- 33 Judgement, authority and legitimacy: evaluating creative learning -- 34 Creative learning -- PART IV Creative school and system change -- 35 Twenty-first century skills are on Mercury: learning, life and school reform -- Part IV Editorial comment: Capacity building -- 36 Outsider | insiders: becoming a creative partner with schools -- 37 The grit in the oyster: creative partners as catalysts for school reform in the UK and the US -- 38 The Cultural Rucksack in Norway: does the national model entail a programme for educational change? -- 39 From network learning to classroom teaching -- 40 Public policy partnerships for creative learning -- 41 Professional learning for creative teaching and learning -- Part IV Editorial comment: Whole school change -- 42 Creativity in school design -- 43 What the arts can teach school reform -- 44 Creativity in Scottish school curriculum and pedagogy -- 45 The challenges of developing system-wide indicators of creativity reform: the case of Creative Partnerships, UK -- Part IV Conclusion The importance of pedagogically focused leadership -- Index
• Cover -- The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction -- PART I Theories and histories: creative learning and its contexts -- 2 Capitalism, creativity and learning: some chapters in a relationship -- 3 The 'transformative power' of the arts: history of an idea -- 4 Mapping the rhetorics of creativity -- 5 Creativity of formulaic learning: pedagogy of imitation and repetition -- 6 Creativity and the arts in Chinese societies -- 7 Psychological research on creativity -- 8 The cult of creativity: opposition, incorporation, transformation -- 9 Democratic creativity -- 10 Creativity, creative class, smart power, social reproduction and symbolic violence -- 11 Creativity, the arts and the renewal of culture -- 12 'Creativity' and its others: the ongoing project of definition, debate and demonstration -- PART II Creativity, the arts and schools -- 13 Arts in schools as a change model: education for the arts and aesthetic experience -- 14 Approaches to creativity in education in the United Kingdom -- 15 Constructing assessment for creative learning -- 16 Approaches to promoting creativity in Chinese, Japanese and US preschools -- 17 Contemporary aesthetic theory and models of creativity in visual arts education in the United States -- 18 Drama as creative learning -- 19 Learning in and through the arts -- PART III Creative curriculum and pedagogy -- 20 Curriculum integration and the disciplines of knowledge -- 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 -- 22 English for an era of instability: aesthetics, ethics, creativity and design -- 23 Room 13 and the contemporary practice of artist-learners