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Playwriting And Flow: The Interconnection Between Creativity, Engagement And Skill Development, Paul Gardiner
Playwriting And Flow: The Interconnection Between Creativity, Engagement And Skill Development, Paul Gardiner
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Understanding, encouraging and developing creativity in the classroom is an international priority (Craft, 2011). This article outlines the findings of research into playwriting pedagogy. It interrogates the conceptual assumptions that surround teaching and learning for creativity, and how these ideas influence teacher practice and student experience. It argues that student engagement and creativity are fundamentally and reciprocally linked. To better understand how to teach and foster creativity in a classroom, teachers' views on creativity and creative processes are explored through Csikszentmihalyi's (2008) theory of 'flow' and the lessons this provides for understanding engagement. The article argues that the teachers' views …
Making Things: Beyond The Binary Of Manufacturing And Creativity, Christopher R. Gibson, Chontel A. Carr, Andrew T. Warren
Making Things: Beyond The Binary Of Manufacturing And Creativity, Christopher R. Gibson, Chontel A. Carr, Andrew T. Warren
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
In December 2013 US auto giant General Motors announced it would wind up production in Australia. It signalled the end of domestic production of the iconic “Australian” Holden motor car, and subjected thousands of workers and their families in Adelaide and Melbourne, where their plants and components suppliers were located, to the spectre of unemployment. Along with similar announcements from Mitsubishi, Toyota and Ford, as well as major retrenchments in the steel, clothing and textiles industries since the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008, the announcement fuelled a growing sense of crisis about the future viability of manufacturing industries in …
Engaging Creativity In Industrial Regions: Mapping Vernacular Cultural Assets, Christopher Gibson, Andrew T. Warren, Ben Gallan
Engaging Creativity In Industrial Regions: Mapping Vernacular Cultural Assets, Christopher Gibson, Andrew T. Warren, Ben Gallan
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This chapter explores the vernacular cultural assets ofWollongong, a largely suburban industrial city located just to the south of Sydney. Our interest here stems from our research for the wider Cultural Asset Mapping in Regional Australia (CAMRA) project, which asked the following key questions: outside of official planning discourses, what kinds of cultural assets exist in a rapidly changing and historically industrial region? What constitutes creativity in such a context? And, as researchers, what kinds of research practice are necessary to engage with marginalised social groups and working-class communities as part of a cultural asset mapping approach? In this chapter, …
Outback Elvis: Musical Creativity In Rural Australia, John Connell, Christopher Gibson
Outback Elvis: Musical Creativity In Rural Australia, John Connell, Christopher Gibson
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
However cartographies of music are constructed, they invariably suggest some authentic relationship between particular sites of vernacular musical creativity and a social and economic context that has contributed to a certain distinctiveness. Thus, the literature is replete with accounts of supposedly distinctive Mersey and Otago sounds, New Orleans jazz or Nashville country, and the 'mutually generative relations of music and space' (Leyshon et al., 1995, p. 424). In the conventional narrative, styles are generally deemed to have originated from particular individual and collective scenes associated with key musicians and bands, and talked up as a means of promoting these styles …
Pimp My Ride: Mapping Vernacular Creativity In An Industrial City, Andrew T. Warren
Pimp My Ride: Mapping Vernacular Creativity In An Industrial City, Andrew T. Warren
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This case study reveals how a researcher mapped a creative industry sector - custom car designing in Wollongong - and made it 'visible'. It outlines a process of responsive engagement with youth that revealed a skilled and economic scene that challenges standard conceptions of artistic expression. 'Cruising' with youth and plotting their sites of activity using Google Maps identified an extensive, largely overlooked market and encouraged a renewed discussion about what constituted the city's creative strengths and assets.