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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Creative Science Teaching Labs: New Dimensions in CPD
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Chappell, Kerry; Craft, Anna – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2009
This paper offers analysis and evaluation of "Creative Science Teaching (CST) Labs III", a unique and immersive approach to science teachers' continuing professional development (CPD) designed and run by a London-based organisation, Performing Arts Labs (PAL), involving specialists from the arts, science and technology as integral. Articulating…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Professional Development, Creative Teaching, Science Instruction
Mediating Creativity and Performativity Policy Tensions in Dance Education-Based Action Research Partnerships: Insights from a Mentor's Self-Study
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Chappell, Kerry – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2008
This paper will present and critique the mediation of tensions arising as a result of the collision of creativity and performativity policies in English primary education, in the context of the three-way model of creative partnership being used for professional development in certain English schools. The paper will consider these partnerships from…
Descriptors: Creativity, Mentors, Primary Education, Action Research
Teacher Stance in Creative Learning: A Study of Progression
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Craft, Anna; Cremin, Teresa; Burnard, Pamela; Chappell, Kerry – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
This paper reports focused findings from a qualitative scoping study undertaken in four sites in England focusing on progression in creative learning (PICL) (February 2005-January 2006), funded by Creative Partnerships, a national development programme. The study sought to explore how progression in creative learning can be described in two…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Foreign Countries, Learning, Qualitative Research
The Dilemmas of Teaching for Creativity: Insights from Expert Specialist Dance Teachers
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Chappell, Kerry – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
This paper offers part of the findings of a qualitative, interpretive Ph.D. study, which used a case study approach to explore and illustrate the conceptions of and approaches to creativity of three expert specialist dance teachers working with late primary age children. The specialists had extensive expertise as dance educators in different…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Specialists, Dance Education, Creativity