Knowledge, Creativity and Failure: A New Pedagogical Framework for Creative Arts (Creativity, Education and the Arts) - Hardcover

Hay, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319410652 ISBN 13: 9783319410654

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Synopsis

This book offers a new framework for the analysis of teaching and learning in the creative arts. It provides teachers with a vocabulary to describe what they teach and how they do this within the creative arts. Teaching and learning in this field, with its focus on the personal characteristics of the student and its insistence on intangible qualities like talent and creativity, has long resisted traditional models of pedagogy. In the brave new world of high-stakes assessment and examination-driven outcomes across the education system, this resistance has proven to be a severe weakness and driven creative arts teachers further into the margins. Instead of accepting this relegation teachers of creative arts must set out to capture the distinctiveness of their pedagogy. This book will allow teachers to transcend the opaque metaphors that proliferate in the creative arts, and instead to argue for the robustness and rigour of their practice. 

About this title

About the Author

Chris Hay is Associate Lecturer at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australia. 

From the Back Cover

Creativity, Education and the Arts

Series editor: Anne Harris, Monash University, Australia

This book offers a new framework for the analysis of teaching and learning in the creative arts. It provides teachers with a vocabulary to describe what they teach and how they do this within the creative arts. Teaching and learning in this field, with its focus on the personal characteristics of the student and its insistence on intangible qualities like talent and creativity, has long resisted traditional models of pedagogy. In the brave new world of high-stakes assessment and examination-driven outcomes across the education system, this resistance has proven to be a severe weakness and driven creative arts teachers further into the margins. Instead of accepting this relegation teachers of creative arts must set out to capture the distinctiveness of their pedagogy. This book will allow teachers to transcend the opaque metaphors that proliferate in the creative arts, and instead to argue for the robustness and rigour of their practice. 

Chris Hay is Associate Lecturer at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australia. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319410652
• ISBN 13: 9783319410654
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136