This book is about being creative. Creativity lets you think of things in a way that no one may have realized before. This can lead to effective ways of solving problems of developing new ways to improve an existing situation. It can also be lots of fun! Creativity shows our uniqueness. Each child has creative potential that should be recognized and nurtured.
By learning how to use your thoughts, feelings and imagination through the dramatic new approach to self-hypnosis presented for the first time in this book, you can become more fully alive—and make your life and yourself what you want them to be.
Addressing the primary curriculum as a whole, this book: defines a clear, philosophical rationale for more creative practices in the classroom; offers help and advice on the planning and implementation of effective creative teaching; and includes examples of good practice that aid teacher development in this area. Written by leading practitioners and experts, this is a core text for teachers who wish to maintain high standards when approaching the curriculum creatively.
Wendy Bishop and David Starkey have created a remarkable resource volume for creative writing students and other writers just getting started. In two- to ten-page discussions, these authors introduce forty-one central concepts in the fields of creative writing and writing instruction, with discussions that are accessible yet grounded in scholarship and years of experience.
Practice-led research is a burgeoning area across the creative arts, with studio-based doctorates frequently favoured over traditional research. Yet until now there has been little published guidance for students embarking on such research. This is the first book designed specifically as a pedagogical tool and is structured on the model used by most research programmes. A comprehensive introduction lays out the book’s framework and individual chapters provide concrete examples of studio-based research in art, film and video, creative writing and dance, each contextualised by a theoretical essay and complete with references.
