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!
The success of the book is proven by the fact this is the third edition; it retains key material and has been updated and revised to include two new chapters - the theme of the creative curriculum and supporting trainees to see how effective curriculum design can enhance creative teaching. An excellent way to refresh established teaching and bring in new ideas which will delight children. With plenty of good examples, this gives lots of food for thought and motivation to extend creativity.
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.
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.
We have an essay based on this topic and this book has proven a popular source for students to support their writing and practice.
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.
Very useful for our foundation degree creativity module. A range of ideas which students found accessible.
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.
The case studies contain imaginative lessons that can be utilised in schools.
The featured reflective tasks are particularly useful for first year undergraduate students.
At last - a book about 'creativity' which addresses this seriously. Creativity in the context of Mathematics and science is treated properly. It is just a shame that each chapter is not longer, as these two subjects alone are both overdue a deeper exploration.
