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This is a guide to a theoretical awareness and understanding of the role of creativity in teaching and learning across the primary curriculum.
List of contents
Part One: Setting the scene
1. Changes in the landscape for creativity in education
2. The art of the possible: creative principled leadership
3. Creative teachers and creative teaching
4. Play and playfulness in the Early Years Foundation Stage
5. Creativity and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
6. The importance of informal learning to children¿s creative education
Part Two: Creativity in the core curriculum
7. Creativity and literacy
8. Creative mathematics
9. What is creativity in science education?
Part Three: Creativity in the foundation curriculum
10. Thinking about creativity: developing ideas and making things happen
11. Creativity and primary art and design education
12. What has creativity got to do with citizenship education?
13. Creativity in primary design and technology
14. Creative primary geography
15. Creativity in primary history
16. Creativity in the music curriculum
17. Children, creativity and physical education
Index
About the author
Anthony Wilson works as a Teaching Fellow in Primary English at the University of Exeter. A published poet, his books include “How Far From Here Is Home?” (Stride, 1996), “The Difference” (Aldeburgh Poetry Trust, 1999) and “Nowhere Better Than This” (Worple Press, 2002). He has held writing residencies for Apples and Snakes Poets, The Aldeburgh Poetry Trust and The Poetry Society, for whom he co-edited The Poetry Book for Primary Schools (Poetry Society, 1998), “an inspirational compilation” according to the Times Educational Supplement. In addition, he has lectured on Tate Britain′s Speaking Pictures and Visual Paths programmes, organises training for teachers with the Poetry Society, and is a trainer for the Poetry Society′s poetry class team.
Summary
This is a guide to a theoretical awareness and understanding of the role of creativity in teaching and learning across the primary curriculum.
