Educating for creativity within higher education : integration of research into media practice / Phillip McIntyre, Janet Fulton, Elizabeth Paton, Susan Kerrigan, Michael Meany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McIntyre, Phillip, 1953- author.

Fulton, Janet, 1964- author.

Paton, Elizabeth, 1979- author.

Kerrigan, Susan, author.

Meany, Michael (Michael M.), author.

Series:

Creativity, education and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability--Study and teaching (Higher).

Creative ability.

Creative thinking--Study and teaching (Higher).

Creative thinking.

Education, Higher.

Creative ability in business.

Mass media in education.

Physical Description:

xix, 240 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

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--back cover.

Contents:

1. Setting the Scene

2. Deep Background to the Project

3. The Evolution of a Psychology of Creativity

4. Towards a Sociology of Creativity

5. Confluence Approaches and the Systems Model of Creativity

6. Creativity, Education and the Systems Approach

7. Developing Curriculum and Courses Using Systems Centred Learning (SCL)

8. The Undergraduate Experience of SCL: The Core and the Media Production Major

The Media Production Project: Integrating Theory with Practice

10. Adapting Systems Centred Learning for Other Institutional Settings

11. Creativity and the Postgraduate Experience

12. Implications of a System Centred Learning Approach

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319906739

9783319906737

OCLC:

1029883921