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Knowledge, Creativity and Failure

A New Pedagogical Framework for Creative Arts

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Offers a new vocabulary for capturing teaching and learning in the creative arts
  • Explores the experience of creative failure as constitutive of learning
  • Moves away from the emotive language often used in discussing creativity

Part of the book series: Creativity, Education and the Arts (CEA)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction

    • Chris Hay
    Pages 1-15
  3. Knowledge and Knowers

    • Chris Hay
    Pages 17-46
  4. Code Clashes and Shifts

    • Chris Hay
    Pages 47-74
  5. Falling Short

    • Chris Hay
    Pages 75-101
  6. Conclusion

    • Chris Hay
    Pages 103-116
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 117-119

About this book

This book offers a new framework for the analysis of teaching and learning in the creative arts. It provides teachers with a vocabulary to describe what they teach and how they do this within the creative arts. Teaching and learning in this field, with its focus on the personal characteristics of the student and its insistence on intangible qualities like talent and creativity, has long resisted traditional models of pedagogy. In the brave new world of high-stakes assessment and examination-driven outcomes across the education system, this resistance has proven to be a severe weakness and driven creative arts teachers further into the margins. Instead of accepting this relegation teachers of creative arts must set out to capture the distinctiveness of their pedagogy. This book will allow teachers to transcend the opaque metaphors that proliferate in the creative arts, and instead to argue for the robustness and rigour of their practice. 



Authors and Affiliations

  • National Institute of Dramatic Art, Kensington, Australia

    Chris Hay

About the author

Chris Hay is Associate Lecturer at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australia. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowledge, Creativity and Failure

  • Book Subtitle: A New Pedagogical Framework for Creative Arts

  • Authors: Chris Hay

  • Series Title: Creativity, Education and the Arts

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41066-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41065-4Published: 03 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82257-0Published: 07 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41066-1Published: 17 September 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2947-8324

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-8332

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 119

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Learning & Instruction

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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