Creativity in Primary Education
- Anthony Wilson - University of Exeter, UK
Achieving QTS Series
“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!
Really useful book with provocative questions.
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
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.
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.
Not relevant to the specific advanced professional focus that it was considered for.
This provided a very interesting read and overview for creativity in the primary setting.
a very useful text with sections on setting the scene, creativity in the core curriculum and creativity in the foundation curriculum.
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.
A very good book with lots of practical ideas for pedagogical practice.
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.
