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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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Craft, Anna; McConnon, Linda; Matthews, Alice – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2012
Given enormous global challenges, alongside nurturing children's creativity, professional creativity has perhaps never been more vital ([0100] and [0190]). This paper considers how a small, qualitative, co-participative study in an inner city children's centre, explored practitioner perspectives and practice related to creativity understood as…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Creativity, Play, Urban Areas
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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
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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
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Cremin, Teresa; Burnard, Pamela; Craft, Anna – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2006
Connecting to current work in the area of creative pedagogies, this paper reports findings of an exploratory study that sought to identify what characterises possibility thinking in young children's learning experiences and how teachers' pedagogical practice fosters this critical aspect of creativity. It focuses in particular on pedagogy, seeking…
Descriptors: Creativity, Observation, Young Children, Teaching Methods