Innovations in Education and Teaching International back issues from August 2008:
Editorial
Aug 01, 2008; ... Higher Education, suggests Barnett (2000), is faced with preparing students for a supercomplex world in which individuals have to continually reconstruct themselves. Creativity is central to this process as a means by which students negotiate their environments and flourish personally and ...
Towards transformation: conceptions of creativity in higher education
Aug 01, 2008; ... Creativity, which has now entered the discourse in higher education alongside other agenda items such as enterprise, entrepreneurship and innovation, is an elusive and complex notion. It may evade the sort of definition, categorisation and compartmentalisation required to integrate it fully into ...
Creativity and critical thinking in the globalised university
Aug 01, 2008; ... This paper outlines the dynamic life of the university in the era of neo-liberal globalisation, and within this context, discusses the nature of 'creativity' as a life force or power, similar to the Ancient Greek idea of 'Eros'. This power is contrasted with functionalist and bureaucratic ...
Risk: the ethics of a creative curriculum
Aug 01, 2008; ... Higher education in the UK espouses to develop intelligence and critical skills in undergraduates. To do this requires exposing students to challenge and thus risk. However, current models of quality assurance are risk-averse and thus potentially limit the scope of creative learning and teaching ...
Learners reconceptualising education: widening participation through creative engagement?
Aug 01, 2008; ... Engaging imaginatively with how education is manifested is necessary for providers both in higher education and in preceding contexts and phases. Fostering dispositions for creativity in dynamic engagement and the consideration of pedagogy, curriculum, inclusion, policy and the management of ...
Transdisciplinarity for creative futures: what barriers and opportunities?
Aug 01, 2008; ... The call to 'creativity' has become increasingly familiar as a catch-phrase of higher education policy. Much current academic and policy discussion, however, is based on assertions of the importance of 'more creativity' without any clear sense of what the implications are for the disciplinary ...
A pedagogy of connection and boundary crossings: methodological and epistemological transactions in working across and between disciplines
Aug 01, 2008; ... This paper develops the idea of a pedagogy of connection for working across and between disciplines by examining transactions that take place at the boundaries between contributing disciplines. Characteristics of cross-disciplinary work are outlined and a case is made for regarding it as a ...
Unlearning how to teach
Aug 01, 2008; ... The twenty-first century demands not only that we learn new forms of social engagement but also that we unlearn habits that have been useful in the past but may no longer be valuable to the future. Teachers have 'un-learned' the role of Sage-on-the-stage as the dominent model of teaching, and ...
Use of creative space in enhancing students' engagement
Aug 01, 2008; ... This paper explores the effect teaching in a specially designed 'creative learning space' has on students' engagement with the learning process, their motivation to explore, experience and discover (i.e. to be creative), and on them becoming more active, autonomous learners. It examines the ...
Creative activity and its impact on student learning - issues of implementation
Aug 01, 2008; ... The use of filmmaking as a creative learning tool within the academic curriculum has been pioneered at the University of Sheffield. Filmmaking has been found to promote a lively, exciting and challenging environment in the classroom. It produces highly motivated students and makes learning fun ...
Why all writing is creative writing
Aug 01, 2008; ... Creative Writing (CW) courses and degrees are growing in numbers and influence. They are fashionable for students to enrol on, fashionable for institutions to offer. CW courses have an established track record in producing successful novelists, bring new challenges in reconciling creativity and ...
Secret destinations
Aug 01, 2008; ... 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware' (Martin Buber). All learning results in learning outcomes of some form, planned or otherwise, but the term is now widely used to refer only to those learning outcomes that predetermine what those outcomes will be - the ...
The Enrichment Triad Model: nurturing creative-productivity among college students
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Enrichment Triad Model (ETM), a model developed by Dr Joseph Renzulli, is a programme for infusing high-end learning strategies into existing educational programmes to promote excellence, enhance self-confidence, and nurture creativity in students. Such a progamme is well known among ...
Using assessment to nurture knowledge-rich creativity
Aug 01, 2008; ... This article discusses the purposes and practices of assessment in art education. In so doing, it comes out strongly in favour of practices that promote and cultivate the dispositions that lead to self-regulated learning and creativity. Keywords: assessment; self-regulated learning; ...