Led by guest Rachelle O'Brien @rachelleeobrien on behalf of Durham University Creative Research Group
What does creativity mean to you?
This weeks chat is led by the newly formed Durham University Creative Pedagogies research group and we warmly invite you to join us, beside the crackling festive fire, with a warm drink for a chat where will explore creativity together, and ask you to challenge yourself to really think about and explore your role as a practitioner and ponder on what creativity means to you in your context.
Creativity may be interpreted in different ways and is often associated with some disciplines more than others. Dance is an example used a lot, this is understood as a creative discipline and it would come as no surprise that students of dance would be creative and would learn in creative ways. But what about science. Is chemistry as a discipline creative? We'd say yes! There is space for creativity in any subject, at any level, it just depends on your perspective.
Creative pedagogies exist at the intersection of the art and science of teaching and they can be used in an education context to teach learners how to learn creatively, problem-solve, take risks and to become creators of themselves and their future (Cremin and Chappell 2021).
We are advocates of using creative pedagogies with our students at Durham University and some examples of ways in which we do this are:
- Asking students to explore their teaching philosophy by creating a playlist of songs that each represent an aspect of it
- Teaching about generative AI through developments of educational bots (using Cody) for example a bot to write learning outcomes
- Using escape rooms to teach about key disciplinary concepts in chemistry and sports science
- Teaching about art through a Sotherby's style auction including valuation of artefacts, validation of artefacts and logistics
In this weeks chat we will explore creativity and what it means to you as a practitioner, with a festive twist! We are really interested in understanding your role within education because we ourselves are a collection of interdisciplinary educators and support staff who have experience of and exposure to multiple teaching disciplines.
We hope you will have some time to explore and reflect on strategies to teach creatively (promoting creative thinking in students) as well as teaching with creativity (developing new approaches to teaching) and that you will share this with us.
We will be using this chat as an opportunity to start the process of evaluating and investigating educators perceptions of creativity and creative practices and invite you to join us for a further conversation about any of the topics discussed. Please do get in touch with rachelle.e.obrien@durham.ac.uk if you are interested to be further involved.
References:
Teresa Cremin & Kerry Chappell (2021) Creative pedagogies: a systematic review, Research Papers in Education, 36:3, 299-331, DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2019.1677757
Guests biography
The Durham University Creative Pedagogies Research Group is a group of educators from across Durham University. The aim of the Creative Pedagogies Research Group is to explore, validate and disseminate strategies that academics can use creatively to elevate and use student voice to enhance their learning.
Objectives
- To explore alternative contexts and environments
- To explore different discipline and phases.
- To explore fostering a creative disposition and mindset
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