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space…play…relationship:
researching creativity & partnership
in KS3 dance education
Public seminar 1, University of Exeter
4th June, 2009, 12.15-2.45
The challenge:
Creativity stifled by
performativity?
Dance Partners for Creativity
University researchers
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Partner researchers
What kinds of creative partnerships
are manifested between dance-artists
and teachers in co-developing the
creativity of 11-14 year olds, in dance
education, and how do they develop?
Theoretical framework and background at:
http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dpc
Four partnership sites (SW, London, SE, E)
One over-arching research question
Site specific research questions
Qualitative, co-participative methodology
Today: space, play, relationship
THREE sites
- Sharing emergent ideas
- Sharing ways of working so far
- Exploring feedback
space, play, relationship in context
Creativity
Creative Partnership
Methodology
Who’s involved
Creativity?
Chappell (2006, 2008), drawing on Smith-Autard (2002) Craft
(2000, 2002), John-Steiner (2000)
Creative partnership?
Co-participative, dialogic engagement
(Following Jeffery, 2005 and Chappell, Craft & Best, 2008)
Problematizing apprenticeship and polarisation
(Challenging eg Galton et al, 2008, Griffiths & Woolf, 2004, Pringle, 2008)
Methodology
• Qualitative
• Social constructivist epistemology
• Broad critical theory frame
Surfacing tensions in power + language
What can we do for you? Bi-directional
Seeking empowerment + transformation for all
Challenging learning curve for all involved - further
info available in RIDE + CORD papers - details on
website
Project research questions
Over-arching question:
What kinds of creative partnerships are manifested
between dance-artists and teachers in co-developing
the creativity of 11-14 year olds, in dance education,
and how do they develop?
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Site-specific research question in each of four locations
developed from the main question
Research Design
Partner Researcher
Dance Artist
Partner Researcher
Dance Teacher
Reflective
Enquiry
Lead Researcher
Border crossings generate a third space
(Zeichner, 2008)
space…play…
relationship
Lenses on
Site-specific research questions
- Sharing emergent ideas
- Sharing ways of working so far
- exploring feedback
Eastern England Partnership
Site, Ipswich - A Journey in
Creativity
PRs:
Helen Wright, Head of Performing Arts, Holywells School
Michael Platt, Teaching & Learning Advisor, Suffolk School Improvement Service
LR:
Kerry Chappell, DPC Research Fellow, University of Exeter/ freelance researcher
Research Sub-question:
How do we actively create learning situations which influence/promote
creativity, collaboration and independence?
Methods:
Conceptual drawing, interviews, video, photography + ethnographic-style
observation, audio diary
Project structure: 5 week primary, secondary, BTEC intensive week project
Parallel session focus + aim: Sharing of early findings
South West
Partnership Site,
Taunton - The Big
Picture?
Qu i c k T i m e ™ a n d a
T I F F (Un c o m p re s s e d ) d e c o m p re s s o r
a re n e e d e d to s e e th i s p i c t u re .
PRs: Mel Mason-Hoare,Head of Dance, Heathfield School, Helen Angove,
Artist Take Art (Jan 09 onwards), Rachelle Green freelance artist with
Take Art (May 09 onwards)
LR: Kerry Chappell, DPC Research Fellow, University of Exeter/ freelance
researcher
Research Sub-question: How is play a tool for practitioners in the context
of partnership?
Methods:observations, photography, conceptual drawing, post-it note
brain storming, interviews, spatial mapping and reflective discussion
Project structure: ongoing Yr 9 schemes of work with Take Art input from
StepChange initiative
Parallel session focus + aim: Insight into analytic/research process
South East Partnership Site
Sian Goss: partner researcher/dance teacher
Carrie Whittaker: partner researcher/dance artist
Linda Rolfe: lead researcher/dance lecturer
RQ: How is creative achievement/engagement
nurtured in partnership work?
Session Focus: ‘A Picture Paints a Thousand Words’
(documenting openings for creativity through the use
of imagery)
Questions for YOU
What kinds of partnership
are visible?
What tensions and dilemmas
do these raise?
Acknowledgements for images
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5x5x5
Broadway Primary School, Sunderland
CapeUK
Trinity Laban
E of England site DPC research team