Educating for Creativity within Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Series: Creativity, Education and the Arts
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides innovative insights into how creativity can be taught within higher education. Preparing students for employment in a dynamic set of global creative industries requires those students to not only be resilient and entrepreneurial, but also to be locally focused while being globally aware. Therefore it is imperative that they acquire a thorough understanding of creative processes and practice as they try to keep pace with worldwide digital trends. As the creation of media messages is a fundamental aspect of global creative industries, and that numerous concerns practitioners face are based upon a certain understanding of creativity, the authors propose an exploration of what creativity is in terms of research, and then apply it pedagogically. Drawing on extensive empirical research, the authors pose the thought-provoking question of whether creativity can be taught. This volume will be of interest to both students and scholars of creativity and higher education as well as to creatively-based practitioners more widely.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Setting the Scene (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 1-15
Deep Background to the Project (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 17-38
The Evolution of a Psychology of Creativity (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 39-66
Towards a Sociology of Creativity (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 67-78
Confluence Approaches and the Systems Model of Creativity (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 79-93
Creativity, Education and the Systems Approach (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 95-109
Developing Curriculum and Courses Using Systems Centred Learning (SCL) (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 111-128
The Undergraduate Experience of SCL: The Core and the Media Production Major (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 129-150
The Media Production Project: Integrating Theory with Practice (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 151-178
Adapting Systems Centred Learning for Other Institutional Settings (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 179-199
Creativity and the Postgraduate Experience (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 201-218
Implications of a Systems Centred Learning Approach (Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany)....Pages 219-231
Back Matter ....Pages 233-240

✦ Subjects

Education; Higher Education; Creativity and Arts Education; Educational Technology; Learning and Instruction