Unlocking Creativity A Teacher's Guide to Creativity Across the Curriculum

First Published in 2005. Promoting creativity can be a powerful way of engaging children in their learning. Showing how creativity can be developed across the curriculum, this book offers advice on how to: Develop children's capacity for creative thinking and achievement; use creativity to increase levels of motivation and self-esteem; teach the creative skills pupils need for success in learning and life. Combining the latest research with practical ideas and tasks, this multi-dimensional book is a must for teachers, students and educators who wish to know more about creativity in teaching and learning.

Introduction; Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 What is creativity?, Robert Fisher; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 Creative literacy: learning in the early years, Mary Williams; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Creative writing: taking risks with words, Andrew Green; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 Creative drama: thinking from within, Colleen Johnson; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Creative mathematics: allowing caged birds to fly, Debbie Robinson, Valsa Koshy; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 Creativity in science: leaping the void, Juliet Edmonds; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 Unlocking creativity with ICT, Avril Loveless, Rupert Wegerif; Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 Creative design and technology, David Barlex; Chapter 9 CHAPTER 9 Creativity through geography, Fran Martin; Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10 Creativity in music and art, Sara Liptai; Chapter 11 CHAPTER 11 Creativity through religious education, Lynne Broadbent; Chapter 12 CHAPTER 12 Creativity across the curriculum, Robert Fisher; Appendix: Reviewing creativity; Index;

Robert Fisher is Professor of Education at Brunel University. Mary Williams is a Senior Research fellow at Brunel University and educational consultant.