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This book will inspire us, invite us to think, and share ways in which research is informing and enabling a role for new and creative practices in primary education. Each chapter is written by an academic and a practicing teacher covering areas such as: creative spaces, intercultural and interdisciplinary creativity and art.
List of contents
PART 1: SCULPTING PRIMARY SCHOOL CHANGE 1. Creativities of change in primary education 2. Using school corridors to support learning: spatial creativity driving primary education 3. Storying the journey to new spaces of intercultural creative learning 4. Animating primary schools, inside and out: enlivening learning through meaningful memory-making 5. Posthumanist creative ecologies in primary education PART 2: SCULPTING PRIMARY CURRICULUM CHANGE 6. Innovating change through creativities curricula 7. The Creative Pedagogue: Enacting Affective Pathways for Interdisciplinary Embodied Creativity in Primary Education 8. Activating creativities by emphasising health and wellbeing: a Holistic Pedagogical practice from Finland 9. Cultivating primary creativities in STEAM gardens PART 3: SCULPTING ‘CHANGE’ DIFFERENTLY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION 10. Unlocking creative leadership in the primary school 11. Learning at a Snail’s Pace: ‘What if’ and ‘What else’ is happening in a South African primary classroom? 12. ‘What can be otherwise’ : Embodying a collective phronesis (or practical wisdom) for sculpting new creativities in primary education and beyond Afterword
About the author
Pam Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She chairs the University of Cambridge Arts and Creativities Research Group and is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal of Thinking Skills and Creativity.
Michelle Loughrey is a successful teacher and education leader with over two decades’ experience working in education, leading schools most recently as Headteacher. As an educational consultant she provides skilled coaching and strategic support to individuals, teams, schools and trusts.
Summary
This book will inspire us, invite us to think, and share ways in which research is informing and enabling a role for new and creative practices in primary education. Each chapter is written by an academic and a practicing teacher covering areas such as: creative spaces, intercultural and interdisciplinary creativity and art.
