Creative Education, Teaching and Learning

Changes in society need creative changes in education, including in English language teaching and learning. Society 5.0 needs more creative educators and researchers to help learners getting prepared for the future. This journal’s first volume (issues 1 and 2) reports fourteen creative studies and a review. In the next issues, more creative and innovative studies need to be done to open new horizons of language creative uses, innovations in language teaching, and innovations in teaching materials.

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Drawing thinking: Illustration as pedagogy

Drawing Research Theory Practice ◽

10.1386/drtp_00011_1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 327-340

Author(s):

Jason Hirons ◽

Mel Brown

Keyword(s):

Transformative Learning ◽

Learning Theory ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Transformative Learning Theory ◽

Critical Writing ◽

Writing Practices ◽

Creative Education ◽

The Way

Abstract The idea of Illustration Pedagogy initially came out of Transformative Learning Theory a learning theory that incites students to challenge their own assumptions and utilizes ideas of drawing & writing, making & thinking in the learning journeys of our students from the first day that they arrive on the course. This project explores the way, as lecturers, we can approach the design and delivery of taught modules in ways that develop the skills of student illustrators, their knowledge and understanding through critical writing practices which combine drawing and illustration. The projects discussed here are across levels 4, 5 and 6 on the undergraduate BA (Hons) Illustration degree at Plymouth College of Art. Creative education by necessity requires a creative approach to pedagogy, and we have developed the Illustration Pedagogy project using the tools and contexts of illustration itself in the teaching and learning on the programme.

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Pendekatan Bid’ah dan Ijtihad dalam Pembelajaran: Mengoptimalkan Kemampuan Berpikir Kreatif Peserta Didik

Edukasia Islamika ◽

10.28918/jei.v3i2.1688 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 203

Author(s):

Moh. Muslih

Keyword(s):

Critical Thinking ◽

Public Space ◽

Creative Thinking ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Thinking Skills ◽

Learning Processes ◽

Critical Thinking Skills ◽

Islamic Perspective ◽

Creative Education ◽

New Knowledge

This paper offers the concept of ‘creative education’ by employing an Islamic approach. In the Islamic perspective, creative education highlights two concepts, namely: “bid’ah” and “ijtihad”. The meaning of these two concepts leads to several debates. This present study, therefore, tries to describe both the concepts so as to develop students’ creative thinking skills in teaching and learning processes. This study promotes several endeavors that can be done by teachers to enhance the skills. Firstly, the teachers should be able to synergize their students’ potential in terms of “ruh”, “nafs”, “qalb”, and “aql” so that they emerge as individuals with the power of “mujtahid”. Secondly, they have to be capable of providing their students with an “ijtihadi” stimulus that may trigger the students’ critical thinking skills by stimulating them to address questions. Thirdly, the teachers are expected to provide their students with chances of having ijtihad to explore lots of received information and new knowledge and convey their ideas and thoughts in a public space. Another effort is that they are expected to be able to manage meaningful opportunities to their students in order to perform creative thinking. It illustrates that the students may deliver a wide array of perspectives for a certain issue discussed. Finally, the teachers demonstrate positive appreciation for all the students’ responses by regarding the principle that they attain two points for their appropriate response and one point for their inappropriate one dealing with the result of the students’ ijtihad

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Understanding How Students Learn: Preparing Students to Become Professionals

Perspectives on Issues in Higher Education ◽

10.1044/ihe12.1.16 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 16-23

Author(s):

Lizbeth Curme Stevens

Keyword(s):

Service Learning ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Communication Disorders ◽

Learning Opportunities ◽

Graduate Courses ◽

Speech Language Pathologists ◽

Community Partners ◽

Scholarship Of Teaching ◽

Academic Service Learning

Abstract The intent of this article is to share my research endeavors in order to raise awareness of issues relative to what and how we teach as a means to spark interest in applying the scholarship of teaching and learning to what we do as faculty in communication sciences and disorders (CSD). My own interest in teaching and learning emerged rather abruptly after I introduced academic service-learning (AS-L) into one of my graduate courses (Stevens, 2002). To better prepare students to enter our profession, I have provided them with unique learning opportunities working with various community partners including both speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and teachers who supported persons with severe communication disorders.

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The Use of Supplementary Podcasting as an Instructional Tool in an Online Classroom Setting

Perspectives on Issues in Higher Education ◽

10.1044/ihe11.2.61 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 61-66

Author(s):

Jennifer C. Friberg

Keyword(s):

Continuing Education ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Classroom Setting ◽

Educational Tool ◽

Instructional Tool ◽

Online Classroom ◽

Potential Applications ◽

Education Tool ◽

Professional Learners ◽

Professional Disciplines

Abstract The use of podcasting is incredibly widespread, with experts estimating that 60 million Americans will be using podcasting in some form by 2010. The use of podcasting has grown beyond entertainment to become an educational tool, showing promise as a way to disseminate information and create networks of professional learners. However, despite the growing clinical and educational uses of podcasting in other professional disciplines, podcasting is being used primarily as a continuing education tool for speech-language pathologists and audiologists at this time. This article provides guidelines and examines the potential applications for use of podcasting in teaching and learning in communication sciences and disorders.

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