The Creative Educator – How educators use the arts to enrich teaching practices and transform learning environments

This webinar introduces arts based education research methodologies and methods in research about teaching. Case studies drawn from teacher education, spiritual education and health education in global contexts shows how teaching and learning can be considered as an interaction between fellow artists through focused, detailed and extensive personal practise with creativity at its heart. The webinar will explore research relating to professional courage in teacher education, being an artist-teacher, fusing spirituality and arts in climate change education, and how creative writing can give patients experiencing psychopathic pain a voice in interactions with healthcare professionals.  

Being a creative educator has at its core the belief that artistic behaviours and actions are valuable ways of knowing in educational thinking and doing for humans to explore their own beliefs and ideas. Critical self-refection is absolutely key to being a creative educator. Teaching others always challenges one to determine what you think you are teaching, and to consider the ways that working creatively as an educator can change your students’ self-perceptions and their decision making. Teaching a creative subject encourages teachers to themselves be creators, working in a community of practice among fellow artist-teachers in different educational settings. In this webinar we hear from creative educators who are themselves being creative in their teaching and educating of others, and how they use arts based educational research to document that process.  

 
The Creative Educator is the first of three webinars which will present how Arts Based Educational Research offers a deep exploration of how the arts profoundly impact educational research, influencing personal and societal transformation across global contexts. These webinars will be a sharing of academic research and a call to action urging creativity for social change through the arts. They invite the audience into a conversation about the transformative role of the arts in educational research, inspiring action across diverse landscapes. Speakers will also presents a  practical toolkit of advice for researchers wishing to include ABER in their practice. The webinars draw on material from the forthcoming Handbook of Arts-Based Educational Research (Bloomsbury). The presenters of the webinars (in calendar order: Rebecca Berkley, Adam Hart and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan) are part of the editorial team of this handbook.

As part of a series, the other two events can be found here:

Creative Advocacy

Artful Leadership

Please note: These events can be attended independently, and do not require attendance at other events in the series to register.