moving from the margins…… creating spaces in teacher education: wonder, theory and action
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Moving from the Margins……
Creating Spaces in teacher education: wonder, theory and
action
ITU 2005Avril Loveless
aml@brighton.ac.uk
Brighton - pier and pavilion
Greetings from Brighton - an historical, contradictory and
creative town in which we work as teachers and researchers
Wonder …
– What would happen if….?– How do we make sense of …..?– Why do we feel like this …..?– How might things look differently …..?– Who else shares these questions and
longings……?
…the emergence of ‘Creating Spaces’
Theory ….
– How might we find ways to describe and explain what’s going on?
– How might we make sense of how we see the world?
– How might we need to change the way we see the world?
– What might creativity look like when expressed through tools such as ICT?
… the development of conceptual frameworks
Action ….
– What might this look like in the context of teacher education?
– What challenges does it raise for our understanding of professional knowledge and creativity?
– How might active, practical projects be a catalyst for change in teacher education, in research, and in policy?
…the design of a series of research and development projects in our practice
Wonder ……
Creating Spaces….
Meetings at the margins of conferences
Connections and affections
Networking and Notworking
Creating Spaces ~
• Some numbers ~ – 2000, 5, 30, 60, 15, 5, 2 ……..
• Sharing ideas, capturing moments, helping each other to think and act in our different contexts
Keys to imagination ~ evaluation of visual arts online
• DfES, BESA surveys, Ofsted reports, Clore Duffield Foundation
• Unrealised and unrecognised potential
• Pockets of exemplary practice
• Value • Motivation• Creativity• Environment• Resources• Funding• Connections
Notworking ……
• … a conference that was not a conference, but a space and time for people to share and explore ideas through talk, play, drama, eating and drinking, and enjoying themselves……..
Theory ……
How do we move beyond ….
Creativity is ‘having good ideas’Creativity is ‘making pretty things’Creativity is ‘having a good time’Creativity is ‘easy’Creativity is ‘taught on Friday
afternoons’
Creativity ~
an interaction between people and communities,
processes, domains and the wider social and cultural
context
• Individuals in local communities and wider social and cultural groupings
• Learning to learn - asking questions, solving problems, thinking on appropriate scales, looking for patterns, coping with disappointment, mapping out and representing subject domains, acting in relationship to others.
Resilience
Reflection
Resourcefulness
Relationship
~~~
Guy Claxton - 4Rs of learning
Big C creativity
&
Little C creativity
~~~
Anna Craft - possibility thinking
A framework for creativity
Using imagination
A fashioning process
Pursuing purpose
Being original
Judging value
‘All our futures’
NACCCE 1999
Creative processes
Questioning and challenging;
Making connections and seeing relationships;
Envisaging what might be;
Playing with ideas;
Representing ideas;
Evaluating the effects of ideas.
QCA Creativity Pack
Developing habits of mind…….Language:
Could be … not is
Learning … not work
How… not what
Effort … not ability
Transparency of processes
Modelling work in progress
Learning Power
Developing creative places & spaces ……
To thinkTo be inspired or challengedTo expressTo celebrateTo share
What does ICT contribute to creativity?
Features of ICT
ProvisionalityInteractivity
Speed and automationCapacity and range
QualityMultimodality
Neutrality & social credibility
ICT capability
Finding things outDeveloping ideas and making things happen
Exchanging and sharing informationReviewing, evaluation and modifying work
…….Higher order thinking
www.nestafuturelab.org
Action ……
Can we develop a conceptual framework for thinking
about creativity?
How might this inform our understanding of
professional learning in teacher education and
transition?
What are the implications for research-based practice in teacher education?
How do we represent what we are seeing in our developing practice and research?
Looking back on our
progress …….
Creativity with ICT ~ an interaction…….
Creative processes & a framework for creativity -
imagination, fashioning, purpose, originality, value
Affordances of ICTmediation and appropriation
ICT capability -
higher order thinking
TTA
BA (QTS)
Creativity
Research
The Brighton Creativity and CPD project ……
Phase 1Going to the movies ~ a context for hard
fun!
Playing with new toysOpen ended - possibility thinking
Focus on process, not performance
Experiences in the UniversityExperiences in the classroomReflections as QTS graduates
Gleanings and interpretations
Asking questions - video box, group discussion, free text questionnaires, assignment
Looking and listening - work in progress & DV movies from students and children, presentations and assignments
Creative processes
Affordances of IC
T ICT
capa
bilit
y
Teacher knowledge & learning
Ecology of learning environments
Emotional demands of creative practice
Professional needs and cultures of students and NQTs
Phase 2Being Newly Qualified
Teachers (NQT)
Using the media kits in school contexts
First six months of NQT yearContact with University tutors &
studentsVisits, feedback and case studies
Themes emerging ……
• Conditions for creative practices– contexts and communities, – habits of mind or add-on activities?
• Transitional identities– capable, critical students to untested,
pragmatic first year teachers• ICT and digital media - a matter of trust
– Tools, treats and teaching resource– Pedagogy, epistemology and expectations
• Taking a different view of our teacher education practices– catalysts for change
Using the work of Shulman &
Shulman to elaborate on an interactive model
– vision, motivation, understanding and practice
– Levels of individuals, communities, capital
Conceptual frameworks ~
Models of creative practice….
High expectations of activity, reflection and analysis;
Permission to question, explore, risk, and collaborate;
Acceptance of students as capable;
Mindful of preparation for transition.
Finding openings for developing new modes of working in the field …..
… non traditional settings… arts based educational
research…research based practice
Research-based practice in teacher
education
Analysis & Representation
• How do we find appropriate modes in which to represent our analysis, theory and practices?
• How do these modes of representation reflect an integrity in our use of the technologies, and in our purposes for education in the 21st century?
So what?for
teacher educators?
school partnerships?
researchers?
policy makers?
Balance…..??
• Productivity, motivation, ability, creativity…..
• Conformist• Rebel• Withdrawn/diminished• Transcend/balance
From Suzanne Richter, 1990
Impact and implications
• What are the implications of creativity becoming more ‘mainstream’?
• How might we recognise and sustain the creative tension and energy that is generated from ‘the margins’?
It takes courage to see things from a different perspective……
• Resist easy measurement;• Support the difficult and challenging
research on recognising and evaluating interaction, process and community;
• Support longitudinal studies of people’s creative trajectories;
• Show courage, care and community
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