Narrative Learning: Education of the Creative Mavericks
We are aware of distinct differences in the way humans perceive situations and confront problems. The systematic and analytic is an idealised norm, but we all know that intuition and subjective analogy play a large part in the creative imagination. This is particularly true in non-western cultures and in the artistic. This project looks at the process of subjective decision making as the development of the intellectual underpinning of the creative imagination in an attempt to place greater value on this method of learning. This current study argues against nascent educational initiatives that place efficiency and economy over educational substance and diversity. The intention is to develop possible educational strategies for the creative mavericks.
Keywords:
Place Based Learning, Anecdotal Narratives of Place, Making the Implicit Explicit Through Art, Learning through Experience
Stream:
Knowledge and Knowledge Management, Learning Organisations, Education, Training
Presentation Type:
60 minute Workshop Presentation in English
Paper:
A paper has not yet been submitted.
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Dr Bryant Griffith
Director of Graduate Studies in Education, Department of Education, Texas A&M University
USA
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Dr. Griffith is a Canadian citizen and received his Ph.D. in Educational theory from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1984 and his Masters from that same institution in 1976. His research interests include philosophy of education, multi-textual narratives and critical theory. He his currently a professor at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, Texas, was former Professor in the School of Education at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada from 1998 –2000 and has also taught at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has author three books dealing with educational philosophy and practice. His many journal publications are in the area of critical literacy.
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Prof Thomas Rose
Fesler-Lampert Chair in the Humanities, Department of Art, University of Minnesota
USA
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Rose’s work is included in numerous public collections: The Walker Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Getty Institute, the Stanford University Library, The Fredrick Weisman Museum are but a few. He was the recipient of a 1992 residency fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation at the study center in Bellagio Italy. He has also received two fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, The Jerome Foundation and others. Rose was awarded the Fesler-Lampert Chair in the Humanities at the University of Minnesota.
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