Writing in Creative Practice

Here's a short video that gives a flavour of the Higher Education Academy Art Design and Media  supported workshop at the UWS Ayr Campus that took place in April 2013.

Thinking Dangerously in Teacher Education: Walking, Drawing & extending sites for learning

UWS Ayr Campus, Tuesday 18th June: a seminar organised as part of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas presenting the interim findings of a Creative Scotland funded project on Creativity in Initial Teacher Education, which has been developed by a cross-faculty group of staff at UWS.

13.30	WELCOME by Prof Henry Maitles, Head of School, School of Education.		Room GT25
13.35	Diarmuid McAuliffe (School of Education) Graham Jeffery (School of Creative and Cultural Industries)	Thinking Dangerously in Teacher Education? Walking, Drawing and Extending Sites for Learning:  an overview of the cross-faculty project which set out to address how creativity can be developed within emerging models of ITE and teachers’ CPD, designed to deliver the recommendation of the Teaching Scotland’s Future Report.	Room GT25
14.00	Dr Anne Pirrie (School of Education)	Ariadne’s thread: some reflections on extending sites for learning	Room GT25
14.30	Paul Kelly (University of the Highlands and Islands), John Ferry (Glasgow Museums) Paul Gorman (Visible Fictions)	their failures and successes and the implications for learning following a 5 day walk from Glasgow to Fort William  along the West Highland Way	Room GT25, Via Skype from Fort William
14.50	Parallel sessions
	Louise Barrett (School of Education) and Dr David Manderson (School of Creative and Cultural Industries) Richard Bracken (Room 13)	On Walking and Creative writing Lines of Inquiry and Journeying: a Room 13 Approach	Room GT25
	Claire Mackie Sarah Wylie, Dr Philip Morris, Dr Fernando Leon-solis (School of Education) and Dr Gill Jamieson (School of Creative and Cultural Industries) Joe Gallagher (East Ayrshire Council)	Using concept visualization in enabling support for learning Using moving image to teach Modern Foreign Languages Creative Connections and interdisciplinary learning	Room GT15
15.45	Prof Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)	On Walking, Drawing and Extending Sites for Learning	GT 25
16.30	Plenary		GT 25
17.00	Close of Seminar