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"Creativity" in Australian Health and Physical Education Curriculum and Pedagogy
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Welch, Rosie; Alfrey, Laura; Harris, Anne – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
Notions of creativity are increasingly central to educational scholarship and policies, but few studies attend to the intersection between "Health and Physical Education" (H/PE) and "creativity." In this paper we explore the literature on creativity in education and identify how creativity is represented across a broad spectrum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Education, Physical Education, Creativity
Training Teachers for Twenty-First Century Creative and Critical Thinking: Australian Implications from an International Study
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Harris, Anne; de Bruin, Leon R. – Teaching Education, 2018
Creativity in education is currently dominated by discourses pertaining to both a neo-liberalisation of arts education and a more widespread attention to the economic potential of diverse creativities. This study applies new thinking regarding creative educational advancement that is adaptive and critically reflexive to the tasks of reconciling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Secondary School Teachers, Creative Thinking
An International Study of Creative Pedagogies in Practice in Secondary Schools: Toward a Creative Ecology
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Harris, Anne; de Bruin, Leon – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2018
Schools' administrators and teachers feel the necessity to apply creative education within their learning environments, despite grappling with understandings of what creativity is and how best teachers can foster it in their students. This qualitative international study spanning the USA, Canada, Singapore, and Australia investigates teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Teaching, Creativity, Teacher Attitudes
Fostering Creative Ecologies in Australasian Secondary Schools
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de Bruin, Leon R.; Harris, Anne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This study investigates and compares elements of creativity in secondary schools and classrooms in Australia and Singapore. Statistical analysis and qualitative investigation of teacher, student and leadership perceptions of the emergence, fostering and absence of creativity in school learning environments is explored. This large-scale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Creativity, Statistical Analysis
Bodies that Shatter: Creativity, Culture and the New Pedagogical Imaginary
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Harris, Anne; Lemon, Andrea – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2012
Taking Butler's notion of embodied performativity in relation to education and global flow, this article uses one example of Samoan cultural dance within a community arts education programme to argue the need for localised, context- and culture-specific arts pedagogies which incorporate diversity in all its expressions, suggest an emerging…
Descriptors: Art Education, Dance, Foreign Countries, Community Programs
Peered and Tiered Learning: Action Research as Creative Cultural Pedagogy
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Harris, Anne – Educational Action Research, 2013
This article presents and problematizes a peered and tiered model of creative and educational knowledge transfer piloted in Culture Shack, a community-based arts education program in Melbourne, Australia. Drawing on Eisner and Sefton-Green and Soep, I argue the value of this approach as a potential new pedagogical strategy in both secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Art Education, Community Programs