Paul Collard on the Creative Habits of Mind and about how creativity is how we learn.

Paul Collard has been the Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education, where he retired from. He has 25 years’ experience of working in the arts and is an expert in delivering programs that use creativity and culture as drivers of social and economic change.

'We defined the creative habits of mind: curious, inquisitive, persistent, disciplined and collaborative. I believe that creativity is the way we learn. I believe that learning is the most wonderfull thing we humans have came up with. But the tragedy is that most children are locked out of learning, by schools, who do not promote learning, but promote schooling.'

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Miranda Siemelink on what happened during the Lab, where teachers, artists and students co-create.

Miranda Siemelink workes as as project lead at the Lab, from CultuurOost. The Lab is a professional learning community, consisting of arts educators, teachers, students from both art school and teacher training, artists, musicians and other experts.

They spend 4 years working together on enhancing arts education, divided in different groups. The Lab that Miranda has worked on, one of four, was centered around maker education.

Listen to her story and what to her were the key learnings from this Lab.

'What do new teachers need, to do their profession around maker education? An open mind, work with open ended questions and the willingness go into the process.'

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Jane O’Hanlon on how Poetry Ireland fills the gap between writers and schools

Jane O'Hanlon, education officer of Poetry Ireland. We talk about the initiative Writers in Schools. She started as a teacher in a prison. She tells us what she learned from the inmates and still uses in her work. And she talks about how she thinks the arts help children to ask the big questions.

'The most powerfull experience of my teaching career has been reading King Lear with the inmates. They knew King Lear from the inside. It was a great example of how arts can help reflect and learn.'

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Klaas Dijkstra on what a 10 year long teacher artist partnership had brought to his classroom

This is a very special episode for us and of course we hope you'll enjoy it too! We are going to talk to one of our own, about the work that we are doing together.

Klaas Dijkstra is teacher at Basisschool de Pijlstaart, Manja and Linda have been working with Klaas since 2011! This is a longlasting teacher-artist partnership. In this episode we'll take you with us to Klaas' classroom. What happens after such a long period of a teacher and two artists creating education together.

As an example we are discussing our latest co-created project called Chilling with Heritage. In this project we added another discipline to our team, namely historians, to create a project in which citizenship, history, heritage, art and creativity come together.

'When we use the 'chilling' exercises the children can dive pretty deep into images of art. They have really interesting ideas and thoughts about what they are seeing.'

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Jolanda Schouten on how to facilitate creative process in many roles

Jolanda is a visual artist, lecturer at the Utrecht School of the Arts and she works as project lead in Creatief Vermogen Utrecht, Creative Competence Utrecht.

Jolanda has been working in the arts for 30 years in many roles. In this conversation we talk about her huge watercolour painting and her community arts work with refugees and Creatief Vermogen Utrecht.

Creatief Vermogen Utrecht is a network of 43 creative partnerships between cultural and arts organisations and schools. In these partnerships teachers and artists work together in many different ways. The network also creates models and tools for arts education.

'We use the diamond as a metaphor for the creative process, to give teacher a hand in recognizing different facets of the creative process. Imagination, reflection, creative thinking are some examples.'

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Sanja Krsmanović Tasić on how arts education can be seen as peace education.

Sanja Krsmanović Tasić is the president of CEDEUM, a youth theater company in Belgrade, Serbia. Throughout her career she had many roles, starting out as a dancer, and slowly moving on to directing and founding many initiatives for theatre and dance.

In this conversation we hear Sanja tell us about the importance of having mentors who help you grow in your professional work.

And, as she makes clear, she was born in Yugoslavia and now lives in Serbia. She reminisces on working as a dancer during the war in Yugoslavia, how she missed having words as a dancer to voice her opinion. This was her motivation to go into theatre.

'We see arts education also as peace education. If you change one person, on child. Give them the freedom to visualize that another world is possible, it's a good start.'

Listen to this very personal account of an inspiring career.

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Georgina Kakoudaki on how students find their voice in theatre.

Georgina Kakoudaki is a theater director and pedagogue in Greece.

Georgina has a big love for working with young adults. Kids from 14 or 15 should learn how to speak their minds and voice their opinions. Georgina tells us about how she approaches this work in the project: Theatre within the walls.

'Theatre can be a safe environment where you can confront yourself, explore different sides of your personality. The arts can give you a safety net, where you are allowed to think differently and experiment with thought and opinions. This is vital at the age of 14.'

You can find Georgina or more info about her project through the following links

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Tania Banotti on building bridges with the Creative Ireland initiative.

Tania Banotti is the director of Creative Ireland. An ambitious program that works toward enabling all people in Ireland to realize their full creative potential.

Tania takes us through the programm. You'll hear about different governmental departments working together. She has a very hollistic view and is able to dream big but with realistic nuances.

'We asked the 170 Irish education Inspectors to include arts and creativity in their school visits. For example, to ask the head teacher of a school: Where does creativity live in this school, show me some examples of how you are being creative? And at the same time, not let it be another thing to tick. We believe, like the old saying: what get's measured gets valued, this can have big impact'.

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Mirka and Maja on how arts enrich the lives of disadvantaged children in Belgrade

Today Linda talks to Maja and Mirka of Škograd, a collective of artist, teachers and other professionals. Together with kids, neigbors and staff of “Vlada Obradović Kameni” school they are talking, organizing workshops to re-think, re-imagine and together work on how to improve neighborhood of Ledine. The conversation focusses on the Summerschool that takes place every year.

To see the work of Skograd, check this video with English subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1te-yZ0lKbQ&t=98s

To see more, here is the movie the kids directed and filmed at Summerschool 004 last year, about the time travel meeting their hero Vlada Obradovic Kameni, check this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unoBClPHzXY&list=PL-kZwlIIOXVxyavCQCDCswfHtjASdzZmv&index=2

Lastly, if you can't get enough, a movie kids directed and filmed at Summerschool 001 about the dream school they envision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYML3XsJ3xQ&list=PL-kZwlIIOXVxyavCQCDCswfHtjASdzZmv

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Siobhan Mulcahey

Today Manja interviews Siobhan Mulcahy. She is the Arts Officer of County Clare, Ireland. Being an arts officer part of her job is to facilitate programs like TAP, teacher Artist Partnership. We explore the role of local government in making arts in schools possible and how different counties support each other by sharing expertise and knowledge.

Have a look:

www.clarecoco.ie

www.clarearts.ie 

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