Creative Expression, Creative Education New Book Opens Way for Innovation and Change

Creative Expression, Creative Education: Creativity As A Primary Rationale For Education
Book by Robert Kelly and Carl Leggo opens the way for innovation, creativity and change in education

Robert Kelly, Fine Arts, University of Calgary , and a member of the CCAHTE Journal Advisory Board, will soon be releasing a new book with Carl Leggo, University of British Columbia, “Creative Expression,Creative Education,” which will feature contributions from close to 20 creative thinkers sharing their experiences and bearing witness to acts of creativity in practice.

The Creative Expression, Creative Education book project involves twenty well known creative producers from across Canada who bear witness to their ways of creating. These examples of contemporary creative expression come from a wide range of disciplines. Novelists, poets, playwrights, visual artists, composers, directors and choreographers combine to present their unique perspectives on creativity. This first hand research into creative practice provides a backdrop for a work that is a manifesto for creativity as a primary rationale for education.

The examples of contemporary creative practice are melded with creativity theory to establish a vocabulary and understanding for creative practice in an educational setting.

Robert Kelly is an artist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary. His research encompasses artistic process, creativity theory, design, and curriculum theory.

Carl Leggo ,a contributor to our September 07 issue of CCAHTE Journal, is a poet and Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the experiences of educators, especially how to promote heartful and hopeful relationships in educational communities.

For info. about this book: Info: rkelly@ucalgary.ca


"Contemporary educational practice struggles to deal with the juggernaut of the hyper-consumption of information as disciplines become increasingly dense with content. What is the usefulness of accumulating masses of information without equipping learners with a disposition that enables the application of knowledge for the purposes of exploring and creating? Mass consumption is the main engine of the Information age, with fact as its currency. The Conceptual Age is driven by creativity, in which ideas are the primary currency. Idea generation and idea growth and development are the indispensable cores of creativity as ideas are shared and grown into new and wondrous forms."

Robert Kelly, Creative Expression, Creative Education

Beginning September 23rd on Tuesday evenings for 10 weeks - Creativity and Educational Practice, a 500-level credit course through the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary. Register now. info: rkelly@ucalgary.ca

visit Robert Kelly's website

Elliot Eisner Award Recognizes Value of Research in Art Education

Call for Nominations!

The 2008 Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award in Art Education

The purpose of The Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award is to recognize the value of doctoral research to the profession of art education and its related disciplines, to advocate on behalf of such research, and to foster continued support of doctoral research in art education. Nominees for the award are limited to students who have completed and successfully defended doctoral dissertations in art education during the calendar year in which the award is advertised.

The award winner will be announced officially at the next National Art Education Association convention.

The nomination application must include all of the following:

• a letter from the mentor/advisor or committee member
• a nominee cover letter and a 1000 word dissertation abstract written by the nominee
• a digital copy of the dissertation

The mentor/advisor nomination letter should discuss the significance of the doctoral student’s research to the profession and field of art education, and include evidence that the dissertation has been completed and successfully defended.

The cover letter and a 1000 word abstract of the doctoral research, both written by the doctoral student, should accompany the letter of nomination. All nomination materials should be submitted as a PDF e-mail attachments to the Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award review committee on or before January 1, 2009. The Executive Board of Seminar for Research in ArtEducation will appoint the review committee. Nominations are due on or before January 1, 2009.

The award review committee will evaluate all complete applications received by the nomination deadline and will announce the name of the award recipient in February 2009. The award recipient will be recognized during the annual Seminar for Research in Art Education sponsored“Marilyn Zurmuehlen Working Papers” session at the 2009 National Art Education Association convention.

(This notice is a summary only. Please contact below for full details.)

Questions about the award and application process should be directed to:B. Stephen Carpenter, II, President,Seminar for Research in Art Education bscarpenter@tamu.edu

The Elliot Eisner Doctoral Research Award is co-sponsored by the Seminar for Research in Art Education andVisual Arts Research.

"It is to the artistic to which we must turn, not as a rejection of the scientific, but because with both we can achieve binocular vision. Looking through one eye never did provide much depth of field."

Elliot W. Eisner, 1981, Stanford University from "On the Difference Between Scientific and Artistic Approaches to Qualitative Research" (p. 9)

Digital Ethnography Thinking About the Future of Student Learning

Continuing on again in our thread about technology, community,democracy and new forms of idea sharing.....
Such creative work and progressive communication I believe is very much related to the relative health of our educational systems and our society.

The video "A Vision of Students Today" is an example of digital ethnography created by Michael Wesch Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology along with the 200 students enrolled in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University in Spring 2007. According to Wesch, the project began as a brainstorming exercise, thinking about how students learn, what they need to learn for their future. Students wrote the script, and made suggestions for survey questions to ask the entire class. The survey was administered the following week.
Wesch then took all of the information from the survey and organized it into the final script portrayed in the video which was filmed over one 75 minute class period.
The introduction was filmed a month later. It is inspired by Marshall McLuhan's ideas as they apply to education.
(edited for this blog, source "Digital Ethnography, Kansas State University at:


http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

SEE the video project "A Vision of Students Today at Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

American Education Research Association (AERA) launches new Arts Based Educational Research Site

ABER (Arts Based Educational Research) , a group within The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has recently launched a new site for those interested in arts research and education. http://aber-sig.org/ The site will offer visitors resources and information and a place to connect with other artists, researchers and educators. Yet another important indication of the worldwide movement in arts research!

Congratulations to ABER for this excellent new initiative.

Scars as Art Tell True Stories of Change and Transformation

Artist Ted Meyer's "Scar Art" Shared on Website

There's a story behind every scar

and Ted Meyer has transformed

his own scars and the scars of

others into compelling works of art.

The 35 mono-prints, taken directly

from the skin of his models, are

portraits of the "scar stories"that have

changed people's lives.

Los Angeles based artist Ted Meyer’s

work is also a reflection of his own

experiences as a surgical patient.

He has generously shared

his work in his accessible catalogue available for viewing

at his website. Check it out. I thought you might be interested in a virtual tour.