This book borrows from a range of theories about creativity and about learning, while remaining largely practical in focus. It contains numerous examples for teachers of how to apply ideas about creativity in the classroom. In doing so, it attempts to maintain the subject’s core identity while also keeping abreast of contemporary social, pedagogical and technological developments. The result is a refreshing challenge to some of the more mundane approaches to English teaching on offer in an age focussed excessively on standardisation and teaching to tests.
Practical applications of creativity include:
- Using picture books and graphic novels to stimulate multimodal responses
- Placing pupils in the role of the teacher
- Devising marketing campaigns for class novels
- Adopting experimental approaches to redrafting
- Encouraging ‘extreme’ forms of re-creative writing
- Focusing on how to ‘listen’ to texts
- Creating sound-scapes for poems
Thought-provoking and provocative, this textbook draws on current best practice in English teaching and will equip trainee and practising teachers with a wide range of strategies that will lead to greater creativity in the classroom.
This book borrows from a range of theories about creativity and about learning, while remaining largely practical in focus. It contains numerous examples for teachers of how to apply ideas about creativity in the classroom. In doing so, it attempts to maintain the subject’s core identity while also keeping abreast of contemporary social, pedagogical and technological developments. The result is a refreshing challenge to some of the more mundane approaches to English teaching on offer in an age focussed excessively on standardisation and teaching to tests.
Practical applications of creativity include:
- Using picture books and graphic novels to stimulate multimodal responses
- Placing pupils in the role of the teacher
- Devising marketing campaigns for class novels
- Adopting experimental approaches to redrafting
- Encouraging ‘extreme’ forms of re-creative writing
- Focusing on how to ‘listen’ to texts
- Creating sound-scapes for poems
Thought-provoking and provocative, this textbook draws on current best practice in English teaching and will equip trainee and practising teachers with a wide range of strategies that will lead to greater creativity in the classroom.

Creativity and Learning in Secondary English: Teaching for a creative classroom
176
Creativity and Learning in Secondary English: Teaching for a creative classroom
176Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780415620703 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 03/16/2012 |
Pages: | 176 |
Product dimensions: | 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d) |