Creativity in the Context of Educational Practice - Teacher-Artist Collaboration in Teaching as a Prerequisite for the Development of Creativity and Changes in Teacher's Pedagogical Practice
Abstract
The project focuses on exploring teachers' attitudes towards the topic of creativity in education. It explores the possibilities of developing creativity in formal education through the incorporation of practices and techniques from artistic/creative practice.
It explores educator-artist collaboration in the teaching of different subjects, tracking possible changes in educator practice and mapping the implications of this collaboration for educator practice and creativity. It is a research project using qualitative research methods, with a (multiple) case study as its initial design.
The researcher will observe selected teachers and artists collaborating in teaching in the Schools for the Future project. The collaboration will be documented and the research methods used include: Observations, in-depth interviews and document analysis (planning and evaluation forms, teacher and artist reflective journals, questionnaire, interview transcripts and teacher meetings).
In addition, through the Society for Creativity in Education (SCE) archive, it will track teachers repeatedly involved in creative learning projects, their collaborations with artists, and the impact of these collaborations on teacher practice. The research participants will therefore include teachers newly involved in creative education projects as well as teachers who have been involved repeatedly.
This qualitative research and its subsequent analysis will be conducted in several steps over four years, leading to final analyses and interpretations of the research findings. Data collection in the Schools for the Future project runs from February 2021 to June 2022, so the researcher is halfway through.
She is currently planning a preliminary analysis of one case (a teacher-artist pair collaboration). The analysis of the SPKV archive will take place in years 2 - 3 of the study.