Creative Learning in Higher Education (eBook, PDF)

International Perspectives and Approaches
Redaktion: Watts, Linda S.; Blessinger, Patrick

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides higher education faculty and administrators a scholarly resource on the most salient aspects and emerging trends in creative learning in higher education today. International contributors explore ways to foster creativity in any student, regardless of academic discipline or demographic characteristics and demonstrate that creativity is a skill all students can and should learn. Chapters analyzes how different countries and cultures implement creative learning, exploring issues of instruction, assessment, and ultimately how these practices are transforming learning. This important book helps higher education professionals understand and cultivate creative learning across disciplines in any college and university setting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317334163
• Artikelnr.: 45522509

Autorenporträt

Linda S. Watts is Professor of American Studies and Co-Director of the Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy at the University of Washington Bothell, USA. Patrick Blessinger is Founder and Executive Director of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL), USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Norman Jackson
Preface
Part I: Principles and Concepts
Chapter One: History and Nature of Creative Learning, Patrick Blessinger
and Linda S. Watts
Part II: Successful Practices in Creative Learning: Cases
Chapter Two: Promoting Creative Learners through Innovative Pedagogy,
Fredricka Reisman
Chapter Three: Participatory Choreographies, Our Future Cities, and the
Place of Creative Learning in International Arts Exchanges, Kanta
Kochhar-Lindgren
Chapter Four: Configuring Interdisciplinarity: The Common Core at the
University of Hong Kong, Gray Kochhar-Lindgren
Chapter Five: Creating Meaningful Learning Spaces through Phenomenological
Strategies, David Giles and Clare McCarty
Chapter Six: Creative Learning Strategies: Learning How to Cooperate, Nives
Dolak, and Cinnamon Hillyard
Chapter Seven: Toward Mindful Assessment in Higher Education: A Case-Study
in Contemplative Commentary on Student Work to Promote Creative Learning,
Linda S. Watts
Chapter Eight: Play and 3D Enquiry for Stimulating Creative Learning,
Alison James
Chapter Nine: The Dynamics of Creative Learning: A Case Study in Best
Practices in Public Urban Higher Education, Gina Rae Foster
Part III: Enhancing Creative Learning: Essays
Chapter Ten: Creative Approaches to Stimulate Classroom Discussions,
Stephen Brookfield
Chapter Eleven: Developing Creative Competencies through
Improvisation-Living Musically, Rob Kaplan
Chapter Twelve: Realizing the Potential for Creativity in Teaching and
Learning, Lorraine Stefani
Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter Thirteen: The Future of Creative Learning, Linda S. Watts and
Patrick Blessinger
Index
About the Contributors