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Claire Needler

Claire Needler is an ethnology PhD student in the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. Her current research area is contemporary use of the Scots language among young people in the north...

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Programme

Announcement of Â鶹ÒùÔº Annual Conference 2020 Programme at a glance Monday 7 September 2020 17.00 – 18.00 Â鶹ÒùÔº Annual General Meeting 2020 18.00 - 20.00 Â鶹ÒùÔº Members...

Disentangling and debating creativity in education: methodologies, research and assessment

Presentations from this event is now online here. Employers and educators identify creativity in young people as a highly desired quality. However, it is elusive to recognise, facilitate and...

Disentangling and debating creativity in education: methodologies, research and assessment

A Creativities in Education SIG annual event supported by the Creativity and Emergent Educational Futures Network, University of Exeter

Mark Leather

Senior Lecturer

Mark Leather is professor (emeritus) of education at Plymouth Marjon University. He is an academic and practitioner dedicated to advancing knowledge and practice in outdoor pedagogic theory and...

Researching creative practices in schools

Our review of the CP archive showed a preponderance of case study research (Thomson, Coles, Hallewell, & Keane, 2014). Some of this used surveys, but almost all of it was interview (including...

Creativity: pros and cons of a quantitative research approach

This presentation will describe several research studies that have looked at characteristics of creative people, creative processes, and creative environments. For each empirical study, the...

Anna Craft Memorial Lecture: Possibility thinking about the future of creativity

In this talk, I will use Anna Craft’s possibility thinking to explore how we can find new positive outcomes to explore for creativity research. So much current work looks at how creativity may...

Beyond words: Materiality and the play of things

Tim Ingold’s (2013) account of the art of inquiry begins with the relation between thinking and making, a relation that ‘allow[s] knowledge to grow from the crucible of our practical and...

Sarah Seleznyov

Co-Headteacher

Sarah Seleznyov is one of the founding Headteachers of School 360 and leads the Rethinking Schools project for Big Education. She has worked in London schools for over 25 years including as a...

Re-imagining the classroom to encourage school students to learn about literature

Motivating children to learn about literature and stay motivated in class is a challenge which we have found a way to address. We found that creating e-artefacts – that is, digital artefacts...