Creative Teaching Approaches in the Lifelong Learning Sector

Introduction

Part One: The Individual
Creative Learning Spaces
Reflecting on You in the Creative Learning Setting
Confidence and Creativity

Part Two: The Group Perspective
Introduction to Groups
Classroom Management and Creativity
The Hooks of Engagement: Creative Methods to Engage Learners
Encouraging Constructive Thinking and Exploration of Ideas
Creative Beginnings and Endings
Designing a Creative Session

Part Three: The Organizational Context
Stimulating Creative Change in Your Practice
Looking after the Creative Tutor

Epilogue: the Currency of Creativity

This practical book explores creative ways of teaching and learning in the lifelong learning sector and provides a toolkit of creative teaching approaches with the potential to transform your teaching practice.

Drawing on various techniques and diverse environments the book illustrates a variety of approaches, offering insights and conclusions drawn from a rich range of practice examples and highlighting the potential pitfalls of creative practices.

The book tackles crucial issues such as:

• The characteristics of a creative tutor
• Boosting your creative confidence, and that of your learners
• Creative methods to excite and engage learners
• Constructing a creative session
• Developing resilience and self-care strategies

Throughout the book there are activities, reflection points and extension tasks, as well as the frequent use of symbols and cross-referencing notes to help you see the links between sections.

Creative Teaching Approaches in the Lifelong Learning Sector will appeal to trainee and experienced teachers working in the lifelong learning sector, including further and higher education, work-based learning, and adult and community settings.

“So much more than a manual or menu of how to bring creativity into teaching, this book will be refreshing for experienced lecturers, trainers and teachers, and an inspirational as well as reassuring font of ideas for those new to the role.”

Dr Clare Rigg, Head of Department of Business, Hotel, Catering & Tourism, Institute of Technology Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland

“Brendon and Josie have drawn on their wealth of experience to co-author a practical teaching guide to meet the needs of 21st century learners in the Lifelong Learning Sector...This is a recommended read for anyone looking to update their practice.”

Debbie Fletcher, Vice Principal of Leeds City College

“Drawing on their own experiences, as shared with us in the stories of their respective journeys from the world of traditional teaching and training methods and environments to that of creative active engagement of and with learners, the Harveys provide valuable insights into and a practical guide for learning facilitators in a variety of contexts to take or enhance their own journeys into the use of Creative Approaches in the Lifelong Learning Sector. Complete with stories, cases, and examples supported by provocative thinking points and activities and exercises for learning facilitators, this is a must-have resource. Consistent with their message, this is a creatively written and presented practical guide that inspires outside-the-box thought and action eschewing any attempts to provide “recipes” but rather championing the need for diversity of methods and approaches based on learners, setting, context, and other variables.”

Tony G. LeTrent-Jones, Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, USA, and Elon University, USA