Creative Innovation Takes a (Team Teaching) Family

The “ creative - schizotype ” : Help or hindrance to team - level innovation ?

Creative teachers and creative teaching

What are the key features of creative teachers’ pedagogical practice and just how do teachers teach creatively and teach for creativity, thus fostering children’s creative learning? This chapter seeks to respond to these questions putting forward a three-dimensional model in which creative practice is seen as a product of the dynamic interplay between the teacher’s personal qualities, the pedag...

Creative Teaching

Although the teacher-proof movement of the post-Sputnik 1960s has long been considered a failure, new versions of teacher proofing have gained adherents in the 1990s, as increasing numbers of schools continue to implement scripted curricula that turn teachers into script readers. These curricula often provide word-for-word scripts that teachers are strongly encouraged to follow, and include Sla...

Modelling Creative Innovation

The economic concept of rationality seems inappropriate in the context of creative innovation, because of its assumption that the tastes and preferences of agents are fixed. The concept of copying, of imitating the behaviour of others, has equal claim to the description 'rational' in an innovative context. Models of ‘binary choices with externalities’ are predicated on copying and potentially s...

A Multimodal Approach toward Teaching for Transfer: A Case of Team-Teaching in ESAP Writing Courses

This paper presents a detailed examination of learning transfer from an English for Specific Academic Purposes course to authentic discipline-specific writing tasks. To enhance transfer practices, a new approach in planning writing tasks and materials selection was developed. Concerning the conventions of studies in learning transfer that acknowledge different learning preferences, the instruct...