- Department: Education
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: C
- Academic year of delivery: 2023-24
- See module specification for other years: 2024-25
This module aims to introduce all students to cultural and creative approaches to education, childhood and youth. The overall aim of the module is to make students conscious of the crucial role of symbolic and cultural representations of education and the way they interact with policy and practice.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 2 2023-24 |
This module aims to introduce all students to cultural and creative approaches to education, childhood and youth. In the first part of the module, students will learn to analyse and theorise the ways in which culture and language shape visions of major educational questions. Students will also consider the importance of storytelling and narratives as part of this phenomenon. In the second part, students will gain a sophisticated understanding of the place and nature of creativity in education, and apply that knowledge by engaging in creative practice themselves. The overall aim of the module is to make students conscious of the crucial role of symbolic and cultural representations of education and the way they interact with policy and practice.
By the end of this module students will be able to:
critically analyse and explore cultural representations of education, childhood and youth, for instance in art and media;
gain knowledge of cultural studies of education and be introduced to narrative and aesthetic analysis
theorise the role of narrative in visions of education, and engage with storytelling to tackle major questions pertaining to childhood and youth;
finely understand and critique the nature of creativity in education
engage in creative practice in response to specific prompts
This module aims to introduce all students to cultural and creative approaches to education, childhood and youth. In the first part of the module, students will learn to analyse and theorise the ways in which culture and language shape visions of major educational questions. Students will also consider the importance of storytelling and narratives as part of this phenomenon.
In the second part, students will gain a sophisticated understanding of the place and nature of creativity in education, and apply that knowledge by engaging in creative practice themselves. The overall aim of the module is to make students conscious of the crucial role of symbolic and cultural representations of education and the way they interact with policy and practice.
The following is indicative of the different topics that will be covered
General Introduction: Arts, Culture and Education
Language, Thought and Childhood
Education in the Media
Adolescence in Visual Culture
Storytelling 1
Storytelling 2
Models of Creativity
Creativity and Schooling
Digital Creativity and Teaching
Creativity in Practice 1
Creativity in Practice 2
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
None
For their summative assignment, students will decide whether they want to write:
An analysis of one representation of childhood or adolescence in a cultural or creative work of their choice, not covered in the course.
OR
Create an artefact or text related to childhood and adolescence and write an analytical essay about the work.
Students will have the opportunity to prepare for the summative by submitting a creative piece + an analytical essay for formative assessment towards the end of the semester.
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
Individual written feedback reports, with follow-up tutor meeting, if necessary. The feedback is returned to students in line with university policy. Please check the Guide to Assessment, Standards, Marking and Feedback for more information
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