CCETC 2012 - 8th Global Conference: Creative Engagements: Thinking with Children

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Deadline: January 13, 2012 | Date: June 29, 2012-July 01, 2012

Venue/Country: Oxford, U.K.

Updated: 2011-12-08 11:40:54 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Creative Engagements: Thinking with Children

Friday 29th June 2012 ? Sunday 1st July 2012

Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/creative-engagements-thinking-with-children/call-for-papers

Call for Papers:

The eighth meeting of this global research project

seeks explore the concept of genuine 'engagement'

within the overarching framework of 'creativity'.

Recognizing the many facets of 'creative

engagement' and the ideals and ideas associated

with children, childhood and learning, this

project is grounded in an inter-disciplinary

perspective and research. Some of the

broader areas of reference have been, and continue

to be historical and contemporary representations

of childhood, the complex issues surrounding

the notion and practices of creative engagement in

the context of pedagogy and the curriculum,

changing technologies and frequently instrumental

institutional imperatives and changes. More

generally, this project will also address the role

of creativity in social interaction, with

particular reference to children's development of

life skills, autonomy and independence in an

increasingly complex and demanding world.

Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are

invited on any of the following five focus areas:

1. The Creative Environmental Space

~ What spaces engender or inhibit creativity?

~What is the nature of the architecture of a

creative space?

~From Theory to Practice: Case studies of creative

spaces in actionWhat will the creative spaces of

the future look like? ~Children's views on

creative spaces

2. The Creative 'Inner' Space

~What is the role of memory in creativity?

~How is the concept of creativity 'framed' in

various disciplines?

~What are the origins of these forces and forms of

thinking, and links to creative thinking?

~What is the relationship between creativity and

divergent thinking?

~How are these developed and nurtured?

~How do various disciplines understand these forms

of thought, and praxis?

~What are the similarities/differences in

understanding between the related research

disciplines?

~How can these be fostered in a world dominated by

measurement, outcomes and benchmarks?

~Children's views on creativity.

3. Creativity, Engagement and Education

~How do various disciplines define the concept of

engagement?

~What is the nature of genuine learning, genuine

engagement with learning and their relationship to

creativity?

~What is creativity in theory and practice? What

is creative education? Can creative engagement be

taught?

~Engaging with, engagement for, and for whom?

~What does engagement mean for teachers, children

and classroom practice?

~How does genuine engagement and creative learning

relate to the architecture and physicality of the

classroom environment?

~Creative engagement in the areas of planning,

resourcing, organization, management and

assessment.

~Good practice, classroom examples, and effective

strategies for promoting creativity within and

across curriculum subjects.

4. Creativity, Pedagogy and Curriculum

~Inter-disciplinary approaches to creative

engagement in teaching and curricula.

~Historical and contemporary representations of

childhood and adolescence: art, film and

literature.

~The future role of text, the visual media as form

of critical appraisal, developing creativity and

children's engagement.

~Children, creativity and visual literacy.

~Traditional literacies and creativity: what are

they and how do they fit in the visual age?

~Assessing Cziksentmihaly's work, and in

particular, the notion of 'flow'; how this is

understood by different disciplines.

~The role and nature multiple intelligences (re:

Howard Gardner) in developing creativity.

~Are there more intelligences than Gardner's 7.5 ?

e.g. spiritual/existential intelligence, and how

do these 'fit' with creativity?

~Pedagogy, curricular and extra-curricula

approaches.

~Integrative case studies and examples of team

based teaching.

~Creativity in a crowded curriculum.

~Education, entertainment or edutainment, and the

'fit' with creativity?

~Teachers, creativity and professional

development.

~How to assess, analyze and describe creative

practice?

~Institutions, education and designing systems to

develop children's learning in the 21st century

5. Critical and Cultural Thinking and Children

~What is the optimal macro and micro-culture for

developing creativity?

~What are the limits of cultural development for

creativity?

~What are the enablers and inhibitors of

creativity?

~What is critical thinking? Is it the same as

critical literacy?

~What is the nature of engagement with critical

thinking before school?

~Facilitating creativity: With what, who and when?

~What is the role of the 'significant other' in

developing critical engagement at home and in

school?

~What are the conditions that foster critical

thinking at home and then in the school years?

~The rise of the far right Christian education

movement and the effect on critical thinking and

engagement.

~Types of critical thinking and their relationship

to creativity.

~Cultural contexts of critical thinking.

~What are the links between self-esteem and

creativity?

~What is the nature of, and links between teaching

creatively and teaching for creativity?

6.Engagement, Skills and Life Issues

~Emotion and links to creativity.

~Engaging in intercultural and human development

education with children.

~The role of parents in developing or fostering

creativity and engagement with life and learning.

~Engaging in intercultural and human development

education with children.

~The nature of school as an enabler or inhibitor

of creativity or engagement with learning as a

whole.

~The idea of moral, values and spiritual,

education as creative experiences.

~The role of play (in all forms) and the concept

of creativity.

~Children creatively engaging each other:

communication and cooperation; problem solving;

play and social issues ? ethnicity, immigration

etc.

~Creatively engaging the disabled.

~Exploring children's needs, wants, wishes,

desires and hopes.

~The nature of natural learning theories.

~Developing antinomy and independence.

~Developing life skills, social issues and

education for citizenship.

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the

submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers

will also be considered on any related theme. 300

word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th

January 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the

conference, a full draft paper should be submitted

by Friday11th May 2012. Abstracts should be

submitted simultaneously to both Organising

Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or

RTF formats with the following information and in

this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)

title of abstract, e)body of abstract, f) up to 10

keywords. E-mails should be entitled: CE8 Abstract

Submission.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain

from using footnotes and any special formatting,

characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or

underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts

is planned for the end of the year. We acknowledge

receipt and answer to all paper proposals

submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us

in a week you should assume we did not receive

your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We

suggest, then, to look for an alternative

electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs

Phil Fitzsimmons

Faculty of Education

The University of Wollongong

Australia

Email: philfitzuow.edu.au

Dr Rob Fisher

Inter-Disciplinary.Net

Priory House, Wroslyn Road,

Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR

Email: ce8inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'At the Interface'

series of research projects run by ID.Net. It aims

to bring together people from different

areas and interests to share ideas and explore

various discussions which are innovative and

challenging. All papers accepted for and presented

at this conference will be eligible for

publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may

be invited to go forward for development into 20-

25 page chapters for publication in a themed

dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.

For further details of the project, please visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-

interface/education/creative-engagements-thinking-

with-children/

For further details of the conference, please

visit:

http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-

interface/education/creative-engagements-thinking-

with-children/call-for-papers/

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-

profit network and we are not in a position to be

able to assist with conference travel or

subsistence