Dr Pamela BURNARD
pab61@cam.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Pamela Burnard, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK where she coordinates and lectures on the MPhil in Educational Research and the MPhil in Arts, Culture and Education courses, supervisors PhD students and teaches courses on creativity, creative learning and teaching, musical creativity, arts, artists and educational partnerships, reflective practices in education and research methods. She is Co-convener of BERA: SIG Creativity in Education.

SYNOPSIS

From my own research, and from research by colleagues in my own institution and from the aggregation of a large number of UK, European and other international studies focused on creativity and the arts, creative partnerships, creative learning and creative teaching practices in a variety of different educational contexts, I can report evidence, that:

Arts, creativity and cultural education play a fundamental part in comprehensive personal and social development providing the necessary basis for viewing and understanding the world which accords with the times in which we live;

Arts, creativity and cultural education provide incentives for structural and socio-economic change (and can be at the forefront of urban development), when presented in line with strategic plans and objectives on a large scale like “Creative Partnership”, in England, to achieve pre-defined objectives which are accompanied by monitoring and evaluation. There is an inventory which documents best practices linking creativity and culture with education; linking formal, non-formal and informal education; linking vocational training and the transformation of teachers, their practice and young people in various forms of creative learning.

Arts, creativity and cultural education support the acquisition and the development of conceptual and aesthetic understanding, practical skills and knowledge, working collaboratively with peers and adults to increase engagement, motivation, self-esteem, confidence, team-building and achievement; Arts, creativity and cultural education make use of innovative pedagogies (including innovative digital technologies) which engages learners (and re-engages learners) as meaningful educational identities; and Arts, creativity and cultural education effectiveness rely on openness, curiosity, delight of discovery, and dialogic and enquiry-based learning, as a necessary prerequisite for opening the creative laboratory dedicated to the development of future perspectives.

Dr Pamela BURNARD

Pamela Burnard博士為劍橋大學教育系的高級講師，她統籌及教授該系的教育研究及藝術、文化及教育哲學碩士課程，並督導博士生。

簡介

基於過去筆者做過及英國其他的研究，筆者深信若干原則: 藝術、創意和文化教育讓我們觀看和認識世界，是個人及社會發展的重要一環；另一方面也為社會經濟的結構轉變提供誘因，例如大型的「創意夥伴計劃」。藝術、創意和文化教育使用的革新教學法有助審美眼光，其功效取決於人們的好奇心和開放程度。