490131 SE Theory and practical experience of teaching and learning (2015S)
Wise Humanising Creativity: Learning experienced as transformational agency
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 09.02.2015 12:00 to Mo 23.02.2015 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 06.03.2015 12:00
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max. 25 participants
Language: English
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BA: M4, Vertiefung 1: Voraussetzungen, Verläufe und Folgen des Unterrichts, Themenfeld: Lehren und Lernen
LA: Theorie und Praxis des Lehrens und Lernens
- Wednesday 25.03. 12:15 - 14:15 Seminarraum 7 Sensengasse 3a 2.OG
- Wednesday 15.04. 09:45 - 14:45 Prominentenzimmer Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Hof 4
- Tuesday 28.04. 09:45 - 17:45 Prominentenzimmer Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Hof 4
- Saturday 09.05. 09:00 - 17:00 Prominentenzimmer Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Hof 4
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Aims, contents and method of the course
This seminar explores the potential of Wise Humanising Creativity to challenge the status quo through and within educational systems by drawing on the work of Anna Craft, a leading global authority on creativity in education. Craft?s seminal work helps us understand how we can use ?possibility thinking? to transition from what is to what might be through ?what if?? and ?as if? thinking to respond to the changing nature of childhood and youth.Craft (2011) argues the four key features of changing childhood and youth inherent in the digital revolution can be see as:?plurality of identities (people, places, activities, literacies), possibility-awareness (of what might be in invented, of access options, of learning by doing and of active engagement), playfulness of engagement (the exploratory drive) and participation (all welcome through democratic, dialogic voice). (Craft, 2001, 33)Unpacking the 4Ps, seminar participants will come to see how they are inherent to digitally-connected childhood and youth. With this understanding they will be better placed to embrace childhood and youth as empowered, and imagine preferable futures for them and their communities through the kinds of teaching and learning practices they design for their classrooms.Additionally, the seminar will explore and experiment with Creative Emotional Reasoning?s (CER) non-linear thinking techniques that foster co-creativity, including Semantic, Diagrammatic and Emotive reasoning.An overarching goal of the seminar is to explore WHC and CER in order to plan teaching and learning activities for ?high possibility? classrooms where children and young people are given opportunities to learn well, be creative, productive and thinking citizens who can help solve, not only problems important to them and their community, but also some of the world?s most significant problems.
Assessment and permitted materials
1. Critical Review of assigned research articles (15 points)2. Active participation, feedback and mutual respect (15 points)3. In-class Group Presentation (15 points)4. Final Essay (40 points)5. Self-assessment and learning reflexions (15 points)6. Attendance (-5 points per hour ? starting with the 3th hour.)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Students will:? Rethink how school systems can cultivate, rather than destroy, creativity ? Consider how creativity, with an ethical dimension, can be fostered in classrooms through ?Possibility Thinking? by asking ?what if? and ?as if? questions? Explore Craft?s (2013) and Chappels (2008;2012) notion of Wise Humanising Creativity (WHC) that emphasises creativity as happening individually, collaboratively and communally while simultaneously fostering ethical awareness arising from the experience? Explore and experiment with Creative Emotional Reasoning?s (CER) non-linear thinking techniques? Explore how games, both digital and real-time, can be harnessed for to foster ?co-creativity? by ?thinking outside the box?? Understand how the elements of co-creativity can be combined to create a robust learning design? Explore examples of creative teaching that leverage students? out-of-school digital literacy practices to foster ?journeys of becoming? and ?quiet revolutions? (e.g. fundamental small-scale creative change)? Understand childhood and youth as empowered through digital media, and thus plan for teaching and learning which reflects such empowerment? Plan teaching units that challenge the status quo by incorporating possibility thinking and creative emotional reasoning to foster Wise Humanising Creativity (WHC)? Self and peer-evaluate the designed teaching units to evaluate the extent to which they foster creativity and the 4P?s (participation, pluralities, playfulness and possibilities)
Examination topics
The seminar?s lessons will occur both face-to-face in the seminars and online in a dedicated learning space. Students will engage in the following modes:? Inquiry-based learning? Collaborative and group learning? Game-based learning? Technology-enhanced learning? Possibility thinking (e.g. teaching for creativity)? Student-centred learning? Self and peer evaluation
Reading list
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