Programme Aims

The course aims to provide you with knowledge and skills relating to current debates and practices relevant to the teaching and development of creativity and ceartive disciplines to learners at all levels of experience.

The programme will develop subject leadership through the participants development of a range of strategies that can be effectively disseminated to the school community or educational environment. By enabling students to develop schemes of work and identify how improvements in arts/creativity provision can have a positive effect on the whole educational environment students will, in turn, gain the confidence to lead arts and creative activities within their place of work.

Creativity, as a theme of study, covers a range and diversity of practices. Focusing on a blend of Work Based Learning and peer interaction and individual support and guidance, the programme aims to assist students in:

  •             developing knowledge of experiential research and advanced processes of                     enquiry
  •             developing complex and multi-faceted strategies and approaches to pedagogy                and learning in creativity,  where possible, of individual significance.

The programme offers students support and guidance in:

  •             the conduct of advanced, innovative and contemporary practices in education                and creativity teaching
  •             the development of professional, critical, contextualized and reflective                             practice.

The Learning Process

Study is flexible and should last for 3 years on a part-time basis, though it is possible to complete in a shorter time frame or over a longer period. Each module is of equal weight and importance and supports supplementary learning. The course consists of; regular seminars and action learning groups, individual guidance and support at the workplace, in the university or on-line and short intensive workshops.

The use of reflective journals as ongoing methods of recording data (including visual, qualitative and quantitative data), will be encouraged  to effectively demonstrate participant’s ongoing research, concerns, rigour and understanding of their methodologies. 

The development of portfolios to document outcomes will have an additional use as resource materials for future planning, development and delivery in the classroom.Practical, skills based sessions will act as a catalyst for further exploration and subsequent application in the classroom.