Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education
Current Projects
Caribbean Poetry with the University of West Indies in Jamaica and Trinidad
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Morag Styles
Funded 2010 - December 2012
Centre for Commonwealth Education
Morag Styles has set up a joint project on Caribbean Poetry with the University of West Indies in Jamaica and Trinidad. It is linked to the Poetry Archive and funded by the Centre for Commonwealth Education. Our brief is to promote achievement through learning and teaching of poetry in schools in the Caribbean and UK and to develop a research strand. To those ends, we intend to construct an interventionist short course on Caribbean poetry for teachers and trainees, which will be devised by poets and leading international educationalists and scholars in the field, to be delivered in Cambridge, Jamaica and Trinidad in 2011. Outcomes will include refereed journal articles written by participants in Cambridge and the Caribbean, and materials for teachers. One conference or symposium in Cambridge (and, we hope, another in the Caribbean) will be part of the dissemination process in 2012. Advisors to the project include Edward Baugh, Mervyn Morris and Andrew Motion.
Designing Our Tomorrow
Bill Nicholl, Peter Clarkson (Dept of Engineering)
Funded July 2010 - December 2011
EPSRC
Creativity and Arts Assessment in Curriculum Reform: Patterns of Assessment Design, Preparation and Course Delivery in Key Stages 2, 3, and 4
Pam Burnard in collaboration with Professor Sam Leong from the Hong Kong Institute of Education have been successful in acquiring a Research Grants Council funding to identify the models and principles of good design in arts assessment and the forms of assessment that encompass creativity as a learning outcome in Music and Visual Arts in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia. This mixed method study will run for 2 years. (2012)
Illustrated Books for Children at Anglia Ruskin School of Art
Morag Styles is currently collaborating with Martin Salisbury who runs the MA Course on Illustrated Books for Children at Anglia Ruskin School of Art. They are currently running a third seminar series, Words about Pictures, Pictures about Words. Previous speakers included artists and authors, Quentin Blake, John Lawrence, Charlotte Voake and Martin Waddell.