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Research and Policy
99 Percent
99% is a think tank that focuses on what happens after inspiration - researching the forces that truly push ideas forward...
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Inspiring Moments
Creative Change Pilot Project - report
The final, and extremely visual, report on Education Scotland’s Creative Change Pilot Project which paired up educators with deep challenges and creative catalysts who could bring fresh perspectives, creative approaches and a full suit of creativity skills to the problem...
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Research and Policy
Artists and teachers resource
This ArtWorks Scotland resource has been developed for teachers and artists looking to embed creativity into school plans, offering relevant policy, evaluation and funding information, tips on planning together and case studies from artists and teachers who have worked in partnership...
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Research and Policy
The traditional office is dead. Here's why
Innovative companies have embraced the theory that playful features within an office can boost creativity...
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Research and Policy
Engage for Education - Creativity
Creativity related posts from the Engage for Education...
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Inspiring Moments
Crime Scene Investigation: Kersland School
The popular television programme ‘Crime Scene Investigation’ provided the context for Kersland’s whole school interdisciplinary learning approach...
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Inspiring Moments
Above Scotland - Architecture and Design Scotland
Above Scotland took an aerial photography exhibition as the starting point for an ambitious creative journey, empowering schools to make a difference to their local environment of such ambition that it could be photographed from the air...
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Inspiring Moments
Mutual Curiosity: A look at participatory practice in Scotland
Scotland’s cultural sector has an excellent reputation for its participatory practice – artists and people working creatively together in communities, education contexts and other areas of public life such as social care and justice...
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Inspiring Moments
Williamston: Tasting a storm (Attainment in Literacy)
Hidden Giants undertook a three month residency in Williamston Primary school, Livingston, working with a class group of Primary 5 pupils and their teacher to explore how literacy and writing skills could be improved through creative approaches to learning and teaching...
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Inspiring Moments
Bankhead: Disrupting Fairness and Equality
Hidden Giants was invited to work with Bankhead Primary, a school in Rutherglen on the outskirts of south Glasgow...
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Research and Policy
Learning: creative approaches that raise standards
An OFSTED report on how 44 schools used creative approaches to learning...
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Research and Policy
Argyll and Bute - Sharing Learning and Ideas
Sharing Argyll Learning, or 'SAL’ is a blog where our educators, pupils and the wider community can tell everyone what is happening in our classes, schools, nurseries or groups… everything from composting to composing...
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Research and Policy
The National Society for Education in Art and Design
If you teach art, craft or design in primary or secondary schools, or in further or higher education - especially teacher educators - the National Society for Education in Art & Design (NSEAD) site is for you: gallery educators, artists in residence, parents and all those with an interest in arts education...
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Research and Policy
Film Education
Film Education is a charity supported by the UK film industry that promotes and supports the use of film within the curriculum...
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Research and Policy
Creativity and Tackling Prejudice
Powerpoint Presentation by Stephen Bullock, Development Officer for Creativity with Education Scotland, delivered to the Education Scotland & Renfrewshire Council national event: Tackling Prejudiced based bullying & Promoting Equality and Diversity It argues that the creativity skills, especially open-mindedness, are central to tackling prejudice and prejudice based bullying and are a means of embedding this agenda across the curriculum and challenging prejudice at its root, in the habits of mind of the individual...
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Research and Policy
Radio #EDUtalk: Creative Learning
Stephen Bullock and Julia Fenby, development officers with Education Scotland, talk about Creative Learning...
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Research and Policy
Skills in a Nutshell
The National Parent Forum of Scotland Summary of Skills, published as part of their Curriculum for Excellence in a Nutshell series, lays out the basics behind skills across the curriculum in two sides of A4...
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Research and Policy
Unleash the learning potential of imaginative inquiry in your classroom
Guardian article by Tim Taylor, an AST working in Norwich and visiting lecturer at Newcastle University who asserts that children learn best when they use their imagination...
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Research and Policy
7 skills your child needs to survive the changing world of work
In his book The Global Achievement Gap, Wagner identifies seven core competencies every child needs in order to survive in the coming world of work: 1...
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Research and Policy
Re-Imagining the Future keynote
The NCLN Annual Event in 2016 took place at the Hotel Colessio in Stirling and was entitled Re-Imagining the Future...