Creativity vs. Performativity for Inclusion: Teachers’ Attitudes in Greece

In the rapidly changing world that we live in, where we cannot anticipate the social, political and financial developments even of the near future, education, one of the major signifiers of human development, cannot remain static. The aim of this research study is to accentuate the debate which has...

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Main Author: Tataraki, Despoina
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27007/
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description In the rapidly changing world that we live in, where we cannot anticipate the social, political and financial developments even of the near future, education, one of the major signifiers of human development, cannot remain static. The aim of this research study is to accentuate the debate which has been ignited between traditional performative educational pedagogies and creative educational methods which have started gaining ground during the last years. Furthermore, it aims to explore the attitudes and views of Primary Education teachers (n=4) in Greece on several issues that arise from this debate through semi-structured interviews. Analysis showed that although teachers are eager to adopt and promote new creative teaching and learning methods, there are several constraints and dilemmas that should be overcome in practice. Moreover, it has been reported that creative approaches to teaching and learning have a very positive impact both on academic and socio-emotional development of students with or without special educational needs (SEN) and they are great contributors towards the inclusion of the former in the educational procedure.
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spelling nottingham-270072017-10-19T13:49:39Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27007/ Creativity vs. Performativity for Inclusion: Teachers’ Attitudes in Greece Tataraki, Despoina In the rapidly changing world that we live in, where we cannot anticipate the social, political and financial developments even of the near future, education, one of the major signifiers of human development, cannot remain static. The aim of this research study is to accentuate the debate which has been ignited between traditional performative educational pedagogies and creative educational methods which have started gaining ground during the last years. Furthermore, it aims to explore the attitudes and views of Primary Education teachers (n=4) in Greece on several issues that arise from this debate through semi-structured interviews. Analysis showed that although teachers are eager to adopt and promote new creative teaching and learning methods, there are several constraints and dilemmas that should be overcome in practice. Moreover, it has been reported that creative approaches to teaching and learning have a very positive impact both on academic and socio-emotional development of students with or without special educational needs (SEN) and they are great contributors towards the inclusion of the former in the educational procedure. 2013-11 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27007/2/Tataraki_Despoina.pdf Tataraki, Despoina (2013) Creativity vs. Performativity for Inclusion: Teachers’ Attitudes in Greece. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) creative education performative pedagogies inclusion SEN
spellingShingle creative education
performative pedagogies
inclusion
SEN
Tataraki, Despoina
Creativity vs. Performativity for Inclusion: Teachers’ Attitudes in Greece
title Creativity vs. Performativity for Inclusion: Teachers’ Attitudes in Greece
title_full Creativity vs. Performativity for Inclusion: Teachers’ Attitudes in Greece
title_fullStr Creativity vs. Performativity for Inclusion: Teachers’ Attitudes in Greece
title_full_unstemmed Creativity vs. Performativity for Inclusion: Teachers’ Attitudes in Greece
title_short Creativity vs. Performativity for Inclusion: Teachers’ Attitudes in Greece
title_sort creativity vs. performativity for inclusion: teachers’ attitudes in greece
topic creative education
performative pedagogies
inclusion
SEN
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27007/