Creativity and Creative Pedagogies in the Early and Primary Years

Teresa Cremin is Professor of Education at The Open University, UK, A Fellow of the English Association, the Academy of Social Sciences, a Director of the Cambridge Primary Review Trust and convenor of BERA’s Creativity SIG. Teresa’s sociocultural research focuses on creativity in teaching and learning, teachers’ literate identities and practices and the pedagogies of reading and writing for pleasure.

• Introduction: Perspectives on creative pedagogy: exploring challenges, possibilities and potential 1. Widening our understanding of creative pedagogy: a North–South dialogue 2. Creative potential in educational settings: its nature, measure, and nurture 3. Development of children’s creative visual imagination: a theoretical model and enhancement programmes 4. Creativity in Hong Kong classrooms: transition from a seriously formal pedagogy to informally playful learning 5. Creative Little Scientists: exploring pedagogical synergies between inquiry-based and creative approaches in Early Years science6. ‘Everyone can imagine their own Gellert’: the democratic artist and ‘inclusion’ in primary and nursery classroom 7. ‘It’s a real journey – a life changing experience.’ A comparison case study of Creative Partnership and other primary schools