Creative Writing: Education, Culture and Community - Softcover

O'Rourke, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862011613 ISBN 13: 9781862011618

Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 2005

Synopsis

Creative Writing: Education, Culture and Community offers the first conceptual account of creative writing, one of the most popular - and controversial - educational subjects. O'Rourke, a long-established member of the creative writing community, provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to the issues and tensions associated with creative writing and puts them in the context of current policy debates. These debates include how best to manage, teach and learn creative writing; how to value and evaluate these activities; and the interface between arts activity and educational inclusiveness. This compelling and lucid text argues that the current dominance of educational values and processes in cultural policy is problematic for advocates of cultural action as a catalyst for radical social change. The book offers both a detailed ethnographic study and a careful historical account of creative writing in cultural policy and educational provision, and provides a contextual framework that highlights the contribution of adult education to cultural change and community development.

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Synopsis

Creative writing is controversial - with issues of whether creative writing can or should be taught on the one hand, and discussion about its contribution to social inclusion and regeneration on the other. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to these issues and their context.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862011613
• ISBN 13: 9781862011618
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160