1st Edition

Placing Students at the Heart of Creative Learning

Edited By Nick Owen Copyright 2012
150 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Placing Students at the Heart of Creative Learning shows teachers of key stages 2 and 3 how to introduce creativity into what is often seen as a prescriptive and stifling curriculum, and addresses the tensions that can exist between the requirement to follow the curriculum and the desire to employ innovative pedagogies. It offers readers a range of practical and realistic ways that curriculum... Read more

1. Introduction Julian Sefton Green, Pat Thomson and Nick Owen  2. The Vernacular and the Global: Fulbridge Primary School, Peterborough Iain Erskine and Charlotte Krzanicki  3. Slow Bread, Slow Cities, Slow Pedagogy: Dale Primary School, Derby Sarah Coxon  4. Pulling the Rug out from Under our Feet: Old Park Primary School, Telford Mandie Heywood  5. Think Connect Act: Belfairs High School, Southend Chris Reck  6. Leading from the Head, the Heart and the Whole Body; Kingstone School, Barnsley Alistair Chambers  7. Vigilant, Resilient and Transformative Change from 0 – 60 in less than the Time Needed to bat an Organisational eye: Thornleigh Salesian College, Bolton Mick Johnson and Alison Burrowes  8. Professional Development Sessions For Groups: Let’s imagine….Nick Owen

Biography

Nick Owen is Director of the Aspire Trust, an Arts and Creative Industries Development Agency based in Liverpool and the Wirral, UK.