Research highlights the importance of providing learners with wellbeing literacy providing learners with the tools (competence) to understand and comm…

This panel discussion marks the culmination of a decade-long series celebrating the profound contributions of Anna Craft to the field of creativity and education. This final session aims...

What does empowerment and agency through literacy look like in the multicultural classroom? bell hooks (1994) argued that educators should make their classrooms pleasurable places where learning should be responsive and empowering. Learners should actively participate and make meaning holistically - through emotional, cognitive and embodied modes that reflect their realities (Rook, 2024). The need for the effective use of creative pedagogies in the classroom and beyond has been amplified by global policy makers including the UNESCO Futures of Education report (2021) and OECD Futures Of Education (2019). Both reports highlighted the need for the transformative role within education to be acknowledged and acted upon, stating that criticality and creativity must be incorporated into curricula to enable young people to try to solve the issues that climate change, conflicts and inequality across a global scale raise. How might we as educators activate these relational literacies in the classroom?

What does empowerment and agency through literacy look like in the multicultural classroom? bell hooks (1994) argued that educators should make their classrooms pleasurable places where learning should be responsive and empowering. Learners should actively participate and make meaning holistically - through emotional, cognitive and embodied modes that reflect their realities (Rook, 2024). The need for the effective use of creative pedagogies in the classroom and beyond has been amplified by global policy makers including the UNESCO Futures of Education report (2021) and OECD Futures Of Education (2019). Both reports highlighted the need for the transformative role within education to be acknowledged and acted upon, stating that criticality and creativity must be incorporated into curricula to enable young people to try to solve the issues that climate change, conflicts and inequality across a global scale raise. How might we as educators activate these relational literacies in the classroom?

Are you interested in developing your primary curriculum with a creative pedagogies lens? We are delighted to bring the wonderful work of Dr Lisa Stephenson (Story Makers), Exceed Learning Partnership...

At a time of escalating global climate change and political, educational, social, and economic divides, children face uncertainties about their future…