Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00300.x

Children, their World, their Education: Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review†

How do we prepare students for a future that is unknown? Professor Bill Lucas discusses four tenets of an ‘expansive education’ to help us meet this challenge, and introduces a network which is pioneering these approaches.

What's the point of school?

edited by Robin Alexander, London, Routledge, 2010, 586 pp., £35.00 (paperback), ISBN13: 978‐0‐415‐54871‐7 Supported by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and led by Professor Robin Alexander, the Camb...

Children, their world, their education: final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review

Journal of Education for Teaching International research and pedagogy Special Issue Fundamental British Values

‘It was the funnest week in the whole history of funnest weeks’: our case study, the second phase in a three-phase research project, evaluates the successes and limitations of creative teaching and learning during the ‘The Creative and Effective Curriculum’ module for PGCE primary student teachers which includes a one-week placement in school. Student teachers', children's and teachers' perspectives pointed to a range of factors necessary for effective and creative teaching and learning. These included learning which is ‘fun’, achievement through intrinsic motivation, willingness to take risks and learn from mistakes, children's ownership of learning and the teacher's role as facilitator. Our findings enabled us to formulate ‘phunometre scales’ which we suggest can be used to assess both the organisation of learning areas and also planned activities in terms of their capacity for learning which is both challenging and fun.

Measuring challenge, fun and sterility on a ‘phunometre’ scale: evaluating creative teaching and learning with children and their student teachers in the primary school

There is limited research investigating models of partnering between University and Schools in initial teacher education (ITE). This project investigated, over a 10 year period, how student teacher...

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Kären Mills

Papers

Measuring challenge, fun and sterility on a ‘phunometre’ scale: evaluating creative teaching and learning with children and their student teachers in the primary school

Developing research-informed practice in initial teacher education through school-university partnering