Creativity in Primary Education

This is a guide to a theoretical awareness and understanding of the role of creativity in teaching and learning across the primary curriculum.

Part One: Setting the scene
1. Changes in the landscape for creativity in education
2. The art of the possible: creative principled leadership
3. Creative teachers and creative teaching
4. Play and playfulness in the Early Years Foundation Stage
5. Creativity and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
6. The importance of informal learning to children s creative education
Part Two: Creativity in the core curriculum
7. Creativity and literacy
8. Creative mathematics
9. What is creativity in science education?
Part Three: Creativity in the foundation curriculum
10. Thinking about creativity: developing ideas and making things happen
11. Creativity and primary art and design education
12. What has creativity got to do with citizenship education?
13. Creativity in primary design and technology
14. Creative primary geography
15. Creativity in primary history
16. Creativity in the music curriculum
17. Children, creativity and physical education
Index