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- Thursday 7th March | 4.30pm – 6.30pm | Stirling University: What is Creative Learning? Keir Bloomer
- Wednesday 17th April | 4.30pm – 6.30pm | Tolbooth, Stirling: How do we Capture and Measure Creativity? Paul Collard, Chief Executive, Creativity, Culture, Education
What is Creative Learning?
Keir Bloomer
Logie Lecture Theatre, Stirling Universtiy
Thursday 7th March 2013
4.30pm – 6.30pm (registration and refreshments from 4pm)
ALL WELCOME
Keir Bloomer will explore two distinct but linked ways of answering the question what is creative learning? Is it about approaches to learning that are creative? In other words, is it the creativity of the teacher that is most important? Alternatively, is the aim to develop the creativity of the learner? He will consider the connections between these ideas and the principles of constructivist pedagogy – the idea that making meaning is the central intellectual task in learning.
Keir Bloomer is an independent education consultant. He is also Chair of the Court of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh; Chair of the Tapestry Partnership (a professional development organisation for teachers); Chair of the School Reform Commission, and Vice-convenor of Children in Scotland. He was Director of Education and later Chief Executive of Clackmannanshire Council, a post from which he retired in May 2007. As a member of the review group that wrote “A Curriculum for Excellence” he has been closely involved with curriculum reform and recently chaired the Higher Order Skills Excellence Group.
If you would like to join us please book free tickets via:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/332997
Also see the website: www.forthvalleycreativelearning.wordpress.com
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How do we capture and measure creativity?
Paul Collard
Chief Executive, Creativity, Culture and Education
4.30pm – 6.30pm (registration and refreshments from 4pm)
Tolbooth Arts Venue, Stirling
ALL WELCOME
Increasing attention is being given to developing the creativity of children and young people. From Japan to Chile, within Europe and across the US this has become a major preoccupation of educators. But how do you know what creativity looks like, and can you tell if it is being developed? To support their work CCE commissioned extensive research into the definition and measurement of creativity and trialled numerous approaches in schools. In this presentation Paul Collard will provide a constructive and practical guide to identifying creativity in the classroom to enable teachers and creative practitioners to inspire children and young people.
If you would like to join us please book free tickets via:
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/333056
Also see the website: www.forthvalleycreativelearning.wordpress.com
For further information contact: creativelearning@stirling.gov.uk
Further conversations with Suzanne Zeedyk (1st May in Falkirk – www.brownpapertickets.com/event/333091) and Professor Brian Boyd (9th May in Clackmannanshire – www.brownpapertickets.com/event/333079) to be announced soon.
Please see the website for further information www.forthvalleycreativelearning.wordpress.com
