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Creativity in Primary Education

Third Edition
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December 2014 | 272 pages | Learning Matters

“An alien spaceship crash landed in my playground today”

 

For one primary school in England, this was not an ordinary day.  It was a fabulous day of inspiration, writing, drawing, discovering and learning for the pupils, the staff and the parents.  But the best thing of all?  The only truly out of the ordinary thing was the alien spaceship.

 

So how do you make creativity a more everyday part of primary teaching?  Teachers and trainees agree that creativity is a fabulous thing.  But to get creative approaches into everyday teaching,  you need to tackle the question - what is creativity?

 

This book explores this question in an accessible and practical way.  It helps trainees to do more than ‘know it when they see it’, by helping them to understand the separate and very diverse elements of creativity. The third edition of this popular text retains key material, but it has been updated and revised to include two new chapters on the creative curriculum, along with links throughout to the Standards and the new National Curriculum.

 

This book will help you enhance your teaching so you and the children in your class can be:

fellow explorers, adventurous discoverers and spontaneous investigators!

 
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

Really useful book with provocative questions.

Ms Charlotte Slade
Faculty of Education, Winchester University
June 10, 2015

This is a great book and really helpful to inspire practitioners to be more free flowing with creative pedagogy than didactic. Brings a fresh and progressive perspective into contemporary working in schools

Ms Carol Lloyd
Childhood Studies (Bishop Otter), Chichester University
June 9, 2015

An excellent book, very useful for Creative Arts students as well as general information for our BEd students.
I liked the balance across the chapters; very readable.

Mrs Ani Thomas
EHS, Derby University
June 3, 2015

We have bought additional copies of the new edition for the library as this text is a vital support for trainees academic and professional development. The balance and practical and theoretical allows trainees to see the links more clearly and assignments clearly show that they use the book effectively to reflect on observations. with the support of research and informed opinion.

Dr Sarah Askey
Education Deanery, Liverpool Hope University
May 14, 2015

Not relevant to the specific advanced professional focus that it was considered for.

Mrs Heather Elliott
Faculty of Education and Theology, York St John University
May 13, 2015

This provided a very interesting read and overview for creativity in the primary setting.

Dr Colin Howard
Institute of Education, University of Worcester
May 8, 2015

a very useful text with sections on setting the scene, creativity in the core curriculum and creativity in the foundation curriculum.

Dr Liane Purnell
Education, Newman University College
May 5, 2015

In timely publication in the light of the new National Curriculum, providing a stimulus to creative teaching and learning that goes beyond the usual artistic domains.

Dr Alastair Daniel
Faculty of Education, University of Winchester
April 30, 2015

A very good book with lots of practical ideas for pedagogical practice.

Mrs Shauna McGill
Education (Coleraine), Ulster University
April 22, 2015

This book provides a great insight on how to embed creativity through the currciulum.

The reflective tasks are particularly useful for undergraduate programmes of study.

Miss Syreeta Charles-Cole
Education, Carshalton College
March 20, 2015

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