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Informationen zum Autor Bob Jeffrey, Peter Woods Klappentext Creative Learning in the Primary School uses ethnographic research to consider the main features of creative teaching and learning within the context of contemporary policy reforms. In particular, the authors are interested in the clash between two oppositional discourses - creativity and performativity - and how they are resolved in creative teacher practice. The book complements previous work by these authors on creative teaching by giving more consideration to creative learning.The first section of the book explores the nature of creative teaching and learning by examining four key features: relevance, control, ownership and innovation. The authors devote a chapter to each of these aspects, outlining their properties and illustrating them with a wide range of examples, mainly from recent practice in primary schools. The second section presents some instructive examples of schools promoting creative learning, and how creative primary schools have responded to the policy reforms of recent years. The chapters focus specifically on:how pupils act as a powerful resource for creative learning for each other and for their teachers; how teachers have appropriated the reforms to enhance their creativity;and how one school has moved over a period of ten years from heavy constraint to high creativity.The blend of analysis, case-study material and implications for practice will make this book attractive to primary teachers, school managers, policy makers, teacher educators and researchers. Zusammenfassung Uses ethnographic research to consider the main features of creative teaching and learning within the context of contemporary policy reforms. This book explores the nature of creative teaching and learning by examining four key features: relevance, control, ownership and innovation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Section A The nature of creative learning Chapter 1 The relevance of creative teaching: Learners’ views Chapter 2 Control of learning Chapter 3 Ownership of practice Chapter 4 Innovation Section B Creating opportunities for creative learning Chapter 5 Achieving breakthroughs in learning: Students as critical others Chapter 6 Countering learner ‘instrumentalism’ through creative mediation Chapter 7 Recovering creativity teaching and learning: using critical events Chapter 8 Reintroducing creativity: becoming a ‘particularly successful school’ Chapter 9 The future of creative learning References ...
