Dance Partners for Creativity: Investigating the co-development of creativity at the interface between dance and lower secondary level education

创造力的舞蹈伙伴：调查舞蹈和初中教育之间创造力的共同发展

• 批准号: AH/F010168/1
• 负责人: Anna Craft
• 金额: $ 20.94万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF010168%2F1
• 关键词: Dance; Partners; Creativity; Investigating; co

Recent cultural and education policies have encouraged partnerships between dance-artists and teachers in order to foster student creativity in schools. However, this sits at odds with a parallel agenda which focuses on testing pupils and measuring their attainment. There is growing concern within the education profession that creativity, particularly in secondary schools, is being stifled by increasing constraints from this testing and attainment agenda. Dance educators believe that formulaic approaches to artistic process and products are resulting in student choreography lacking in authenticity and originality. There is therefore a pressing need to address this to help reconnect secondary school practice with the creativity known to exist within the artform. To contribute to addressing this need, this research will investigate approaches to creativity in dance education with 11/14 year olds (curriculum Key Stage 3) in England. In particular, the research will focus on an approach where creativity is fostered by working partnerships between dance-artists and teachers. This is currently felt to be a potentially fruitful way of fostering creativity at the secondary level in dance. For example within the Specialist Schools Programme; the Creativity Action Research Awards; Creative Partnerships; and the new dance Centres for Advanced Training. Whilst outcomes of these programmes suggest that partnership can be highly successful in stimulating creativity, not enough is known about how. In order to investigate this further, successful partnership activity within these kinds of programmes will be researched. The research question is therefore: What kinds of creative partnerships are manifested between dance-artists and teachers in co-developing the creativity of 11-14 year olds, in dance in education, and how do these develop? Three key research areas have been identified to develop partnership models and practice. These are: investigating partnership roles and relationships; gaining understanding of how creativity is conceived and facilitated; and questioning practice to understand the tensions and dilemmas faced by the partnerships.A range of recent research underpins this study. This includes a flexible framework for understanding creativity, developed from the team's previous research. It also includes articulations of models of partnership from other contexts, as well as recent policy documents.The research will use a qualitative methodology to critique and inform practice and policymaking. The team will research collaboratively with between 3 and 6 dance-artist/teacher partnerships with experience in research, with whom relationships already exist. These relationships will be negotiated within the University of Exeter Ethics Committee guidelines. Drawing on the team's previous experience, research methods will include: reflective interviews/journals, observation, documentation, conceptual drawing, focus groups, photographic/video evidence, and other arts-based methods brought to the investigation by the partnerships. The research is intended to be useful to dance professionals including artists, teachers, education researchers, teacher trainers and policy makers. It is a strength of the team's diversity that they can reach these groups. The team includes an internationally recognised expert on creativity in education, an expert on researching creativity in dance education and teacher-artist partnerships, and policy and teacher education specialists.Dissemination and debate are vital to this research and will occur via two seminars (at Laban and the University of Exeter): a book (synthesising findings drawing on all team members' participation); peer-reviewed articles and conference presentations; as well as responding to other opportunities as they arise. This includes those within other domains struggling to find space for creativity, and keen to develop understanding of creative partnership.

最近的文化和教育政策鼓励舞蹈艺术家和教师之间建立伙伴关系，以培养学校学生的创造力。然而，这与侧重于测试学生和衡量其成绩的平行议程不一致。教育界越来越担心，这种考试和成绩议程的限制越来越多，扼杀了创造力，特别是中学的创造力。舞蹈教育工作者认为，公式化的方法，艺术过程和产品导致学生编舞缺乏真实性和原创性。因此，迫切需要解决这一问题，以帮助重新连接中学实践与艺术形式中已知的创造力。为了帮助解决这一需求，本研究将探讨在舞蹈教育与11/14奥尔兹（课程关键阶段3）在英格兰的创造力的方法。特别是，研究将侧重于通过舞蹈艺术家和教师之间的工作伙伴关系培养创造力的方法。目前认为，这是一个潜在的富有成效的方式，培养创造力的中学舞蹈水平。例如，在专门学校方案内;创造性行动研究奖;创造性伙伴关系;以及新的高级培训舞蹈中心。虽然这些方案的结果表明，伙伴关系可以非常成功地激发创造力，但人们对如何做到这一点还知之甚少。为了进一步调查这一点，将研究这类方案内成功的伙伴关系活动。因此，研究的问题是：什么样的创造性伙伴关系表现在舞蹈艺术家和教师之间的共同发展的创造力的11-14岁的奥尔兹，在舞蹈教育，以及如何这些发展？已确定了三个关键研究领域，以发展伙伴关系模式和做法。这些是：调查伙伴关系的角色和关系;了解创造力是如何构思和促进的;并质疑实践，以了解伙伴关系所面临的紧张局势和困境。这包括一个灵活的框架来理解创造力，从团队以前的研究开发。它还包括其他背景下的伙伴关系模式的阐述，以及最近的政策文件，研究将使用定性方法来批评和告知实践和决策。该团队将与3至6名具有研究经验的舞蹈艺术家/教师合作研究，与他们的关系已经存在。这些关系将在埃克塞特大学伦理委员会指导方针范围内进行协商。根据团队以往的经验，研究方法将包括：反思性访谈/期刊，观察，文件，概念图，焦点小组，摄影/视频证据，以及合作伙伴为调查带来的其他艺术方法。这项研究旨在对舞蹈专业人士，包括艺术家、教师、教育研究人员、教师培训人员和政策制定者有用。这是团队多样性的一个优势，他们可以接触到这些群体。该团队包括一位国际公认的教育创造力专家、一位研究舞蹈教育和教师艺术家伙伴关系创造力的专家，以及政策和教师教育专家。（在拉班和埃克塞特大学）：一本书（综合所有团队成员的参与结果）;同行评审的文章和会议演讲;以及在出现其他机会时做出回应。这包括那些在其他领域努力寻找创造力空间，并热衷于发展创造性伙伴关系的理解。