“Creative Learning in the Primary School”
“Creative Learning in the Primary School”Bob Jeffrey & Peter Woods
I was browsing thru the many books @ Borders looking for a curriculum-education related references when I found this book. I took it, flipped the pages and scanned thru its contents and Introduction. I was told by a scholar that to know what’s inside a book is by looking at the index at the back of the book (readers will be able to have a big picture of the content of the book) or the Introduction found @ the beginning part of a book (for the gist on key ideas, brief summary & problems discussed).
Well, I was straightaway impressed by what is inside the book. The content and structure of the book clearly discusses 2 key areas of creative learning; the first part by exploring in detail each of the major characteristics of creative learning complemented with case studies on breakthrough and transformations in pupils’ learning, and the other part on teachers’ perspectives from schools involved in creative learning research.
I like this part when it concludes the 1st part as follows:
the higher the RELEVANCE of teaching to children’s lives, worlds, cultures and interests, the more likelihood there is that pupils will have CONTROL of their own learning processes. Relevance aids identification, motivation, excitement and enthusiasm. Control, in turns, leads to OWNERSHIP of the knowledge that results. If relevance, control and ownership apply, the greater the chance of creative learning resulting-something new is created, there is significant change or ‘transformation’ in the pupil- i.e. INNOVATION.
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
