Evaluating Creativity : Making and Learning by Young People

Evaluating Creative Practice discusses: *the function of evaluation in general *the role of formal assessment and its relation with informal evaluation *the role of the audience for the creative product *the value of making within the subject discipline *the balance within the subject paid to product and process *the role of reflection and the place of the students voice. Examples of practice from subject disciplines English, Art, Music, Drama, Media Studies, Design and Technology, Gallery Education and Digital Arts will enable those involved with primary, secondary, further, higher, gallery and community education to learn from each other and to develop a coherent approach to the range of creative work produced by young people. By focusing on questions of evaluation and containing a range of practical examples the book sets an agenda for creative work by young people in the school curriculum and beyond. "Many subjects in the school curriculum ask students to make various kinds of practical and arts based productions. These might include: paintings; creative writing; performances; recordings; videos and multimedia digital creations. Within the subject areas many interesting contradictions arise when students are required to be cultural producers in this way, and these contradictions are most acute when teachers and students evaluate media arts work." "This book aims to debate these different conceptions of young people as cultural producers. Each contribution will give examples of practice from a subject discipline including English, Art, Music, Drama, Media Studies, Design and Technology, Gallery Education and Digital Arts. This will enable those involved with primary, secondary, further, higher, gallery and community education to learn from each other and to develop a coherent approach to the range of creative work produced by young people. By focusing on questions of evaluation and containing a range of practical examples the book will set an agenda for creative work by young people in the school curriculum and beyond."--BOOK JACKET By focusing on questions of evaluation and providing a range of practical examples, this book sets an agenda for creative work by young people in the school curriculum and beyond In modern industrialised countries a typical week in school is broken down into now traditionally accepted units of time, place and sense.