An issue that has always intrigued me is that of ‘creativity’. One of my favourite sources on this topic is Ken Robinson, in particular his book “Out of our minds: Learning to be Creative”. Over the next couple of posts I will be exploring this topic a little further, side-by-side with my current work on
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Innovative Conservatoire Seminar 10: Student as Teacher, Dartington 2014
The innovative conservatoire seminar is always such an inspiring space to inhabit. Over three days key members from various European institutions gather at Dartington Hall to share practice and ideas creating a vibrant and supportive community of practice. In this positive place, fear is cast aside and experimentation is encouraged. I find that this kind of
Read on »A common student query…What should I reflect on?
This is probably the most common question my students ask… Reflective analyses form an part of their course work and they may be quite disillusioned with ‘reflecting’ when all they want to, from their perspective, is to ‘do’/ ‘to create’/ ‘to make’. They may just resist reflection and this can be a difficult concept for
Read on »On reflection (my third teaching principle)
Further to a previous post (http://wp.me/p2kETw-59) over the past few weeks I have been thinking more deeply about the concept of reflection. Reading through current literature on the subject, I realised that there was a network of words that kept cropping up. Often these are isolated and discussed as free-standing concepts, sometimes they are not.
Read on »Thoughts on John Connell’s ‘I am Learner’
I’ve been reading various texts on learning and creativity over the past few weeks and have of course needed to think about the kind of learner that I am. I have never really thought about what kind of learner I am, but through this research I have begun to see my own learning processes in
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