dr paul martin inqbate - cetl in creativity university of brighton
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Dr Paul MartinInQbate - CETL in Creativity
University of Brighton
FDTL - TQEF5 Phases funded between 1997 and 2009168 projects up to £250k eachTotal funding of £34 millionAcross all subject areas
HEFCE published aims to:-Stimulate developments in learning and teachingSecure the widest possible involvement of
institutions in the take-up and implementation of good practice
Why are we here today?To celebrate FDTL with fellow journeywomen/menTo share and learn from our experiencesTo celebrate our successesTo engage in an act of closureTo look to the future
After all if you are here you are probably a change agent!
So what do you want to get out of these two days?
Why did you get involved ?Because it was thereYou are a developer of people or ideasYou are interested in......To change the world or at least your part of itTo develop your career Pay the mortgage ...........................To make the world a better place!
The Purpose of HECultivating Humanity (Nussbaum 1997) - liberalis
Continuity and fidelity discouraging critical reflectionProduce free citizens not from wealth or birth but because
they can call their minds their own (Seneca) Feinberg's (1993) models of the social function of
education As mainly economic and vocational and concerned with
the transmission of technically exploitable knowledge.As mainly political and cultural to further social participation
through the development of interpretive understanding
Change and stabilityTuche – luck / randomness of life or ‘just what
happens’ Techne – human art or science developed in order
to mitigate against tuche. Eudaimonia – ‘human flourishing’ – Socrates saw
this not just as power and wealth but guided by moral virtue, a good life.
Nietzsche
“one must have chaos in one’s soul in order to give birth to a dancing star”
From the dance between chaos and form comes learning and creativity
Dionysian The will to chaosPrimal void of potentialQuantum void, Nirvana,
Tao etc.Tendency to change
Apollonian The will to formManifestation of the
universeTendency to stability
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Creativity Creativity is –
UbiquitousThe meeting of Dionysus and Apollo, where poetic
intoxication is tempered by the demands of structure, logic and rationality (D. Peat / Nietzsche)
A force which manifests itself in time and spaceWithout morality
To be creative we walk the line between chaos and form
Ehrenzweig’s model of Creativity. Initial state –
fragmentationDe-differentiation
Attendant anxieties must be tolerated
Third state – re-introjection
or integration re-differentiation conscious
awareness of new whole
Second state – initiate unconscious scanningIntegrate new structure
through countless cross ties
Creativity and Transformative learning
In Transformative Learning we literally re-create ourselves (Mezirow)
Learning is a creative process‘The being of ourselves is meaning; the being of
society is meaning…[therefore] a change of meaning is a change of being’ (Bohm)
Can happen when people realise that reality is not fixed but ‘patterns of shifting, responsive potential’ (Zohar)
CETL daughter of FDTL ‘InQbate’ CETL in Creativity
Wizards' in Higher EducationThe essence of the wizard is transformation (Chopra)The wizard teaches alchemy which is about change,
transformation and enlightenmentThe wizard helps others cleanse their ‘doors of
perception’ so they can begin to see the unseen world
The uncertainty you feel within you is the doorway to wisdom
Wizards help to create seekersYou are Wizards
Your successes through FDTL
Share with the person next to you something which went very well or which you are proud of
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Your successes through FDTLBuilt communities in a climate of competitionDeveloped and brought skills of project management to
HEPromoted a focus on Learning and Teaching against
prevailing climate of Research and Knowledge TransferPromoted cross and interdisciplinary approachesSupported and pioneered the development of learning
and teaching practiceExplored and developed L&T technologies Peopled HE with a new breed of educatorsDeveloped and changed yourself and others
Quo Vadis ‘whither go-est thou’
the green chapel
now you set foot on the threshold
the world outdoors
before you like a map of dreams
I am not that hero
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New beginningsLook in your mirror;
you might see
the image of someone retreating before your face
Then
with a single step
your journey starts...
(Sir Gawain and the green knight – Carolyn Trant)
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Message to your futureTake your postcard
Put on it your name and address
What step will you take next towards developing your inner wizard? Write this as a memo to yourself.
Hand it in to me and I will post it to you in a weeks time
ReferencesBohm, D. 1998, ‘On Creativity’. London. Routledge.Chopra, D., 1996, The Way of the Wizard. London.
Rider.Erhenzweig, A. 1984ed, ‘The Hidden Order of Art’.
California. Uni of California Press.Mezirow, J. 1991, ‘Transformative Dimensions of Adult
Learning’. Oxford. Jossey-Bass.Nietzsche, 1969ed, ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’. London.
Penguin Classics.
ReferencesNussbaum, M, 1993ed, The Fragility of
goodness. Cambridge. Cambridge Uniniversity Press.
Nussbaum, M. 1997, ‘Cultivating humanity’. Cambridge. Cambridge Uniniversity Press.
Peat, D. 2000, The Blackwinged Night. New York. Basic Books.
Contacts and informationUniversity of Brighton Creativity Centre
website (www.brighton.ac.uk/creativity)
InQbate CETL in creativity website – (www.inqbate.co.uk)
Dr Paul Martin – ([email protected])
Martin Studios website – (www.martinstudios.co.uk)