Past event
This online event offered insightful conversations with three creativities in education experts including those with academic and practice-based experience. The conversations focused on how these experts understand learning and teaching of and for creativity. They also brought in their experience of how conceptualisations of creativity and how they are recognised influence this, and what this in turn means for assessment and policy.
The event renewed focus on the dialogues between and diversity of academic and practitioner-based research to consider how these benefit learners progress in relation to creativities. The key topics will be shared publicly with event participants in advance in order to enable the most productive debates to occur in breakout room sessions after the conversations. With an eye to equality of contribution, these will also inform how organisers, contributors and participants can take responses to these questions forward in blogs and sharings after the event.
We are delighted to be collaborating on this event with the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (https://issci.online/) and the Global Institute of Creative Thinking (https://www.gioct.org/) enabling us to reach international scholars and practitioners in the field.
| 15:30 | Welcome and Introduction Kerry Chappell and Jo Trowsdale |
| 15:40 | In Conversation with Professor Dan Harris, RMIT University |
| 16:05 | In Conversation with Sarah Childs, Penryn College |
| 16:30 | In Conversation with Professor Amanda Gulla, Lehman College, Olu Animashaun and Deirdre Lynn Hollmam, Columbia University |
| 16:55 | Breakout group debates |
| 17:15 | Plenary |
| 17:30 | Break |
| 17:45 |
Welcome and Introduction to Memorial Lecture |
| 17:55 |
Anna Craft Memorial Lecture
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| 18:25 | Q&A |
| 18:45 | Event Close |
Watching a BERA Virtual event
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Associate Professor at University of Exeter
Associate Professor Dr Kerry Chappell leads the Creativity and Emergent Educational futures Network (CEEN) and the MA Education Creative Arts Programme at University of Exeter. She researches creativity in education in the arts, transdisciplinary...
Associate Professor at University of Warwick
Jo Trowsdale is an Honorary Assocaite Professor in Sociology at the University of Warwock. She has extensive policy and practice experience as a former regional director of a systematic government initiative to enhance the role of the place of...
Professor of English Education at Lehman College/City University of New York
Dr. Amanda Nicole Gulla is a Professor of English Education at Lehman College, and Coordinator of the graduate program in English Education. Her teaching and scholarship are both intimately connected to her work as a poet, as she brings aesthetic...
Lead Practitioner at Penryn College
Sarah Childs is a member of the Senior Leadership Team as Lead Practitioner at Penryn College. She leads on the Arts Councils Creativity Collaboratives Programme for the Penryn Partnership working with eight local primary schools. She joined...
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Professor Daniel Harris (they/them) School of Education, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia), is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Education, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia), and Co-Director of Creative...
Doctoral Student at Teachers College, Columbia University
Deirdre is a scholar and educator with over twenty years of experience engaging teachers and teens in the study of history, art, and culture. She served as Director of Education and Exhibitions at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black...
Doctoral Student at Teachers College, Columbia University
Oluwaseun Animashaun is a doctoral student in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University as well as a 6th Grade ELA Teacher. Her current research interests center on pop culture, play, and Black speculative...
Professor in Education (Literacy) at The Open University
Professor Teresa Cremin is a Professor of Education (Literacy) at The Open University in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies. Professor Cremin is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences,(AcSS) the Royal Society of the Arts...
Senior Lecturer at Birmingham City University
Dr. Zoe Lewis is a senior lecturer in early years at Birmingham City University. Zoe became a teacher and leader in early years settings after spending over 25 years volunteering as a group leader and outdoor activities adviser with the charity...
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