10.00 - 10.30 Registration and coffee
10.30 - 11.00 Introduction: Ned Costello, CEO Irish Universities Association
11.00 - 11.45 Keynote address: Professor Norman Jackson, University of Surrey
Recognising Students' Creativity through a Lifewide Curriculum
Creativity as an outcome of higher education is often more by accident then design. All too often curricular designs and assessment requirements ignore or inhibit students’ creative development and self-expression. The will to be creative usually stems from a deep intrinsic motivation inspired by the personal choices people are able to make. Perhaps if we viewed the curriculum from the perspective of the learner as the designer of their own life experience, we would have more chance of embracing, supporting and recognising their creative will and enterprise. The presentation will explore the idea of a life-wide curriculum as a way of embracing, recognising and valuing students’ creativity.
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12.00 - 1.00 Presentations by participants: These will include:
1. Creativity in the classroom: from an intuitive approach to an informed approach
Catherine Lowry O’Neill, WIT
2. Creativity in Education? or education in creativity?
Sean Rattigan, AIT
3. Creativity in Education: classroom drama
Kate McCarthy, WIT
4. The relation of creativity to plurilingualism
Aine Furlong, WIT
5. Literacy links to science in teacher education
Ivor Hickey, St Mary’s University College Belfast
6. Revisualising reflective practice in higher education using creative methods
Shelley Tracey, QUB
7. Myths and Misconceptions
Iain McLaren, NUIG
8. The Muddy Field : analogical creative thinking
Anne Jordan, WIT
9. As time goes by: creativity and student epistemological development
Orison Carlile, WIT
10. Learning creativity: the student perspective
Robert Carlile, UCC
Please note that there are still slots available in this session for potential presenters. Please contact s.tracey@qub.ac.uk or ajordan@wit.ie with your title and your preference for a 10-minute or 20-minute slot
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.00 Workshops: mapping creativity
Groupwork: using creative problem-solving methods.
3.00 – 4.00 Final plenary session: Feedback from workshops, comments, recommendations for the future, planning