2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

EDUC5020M Creativity and Play for Learning

30 creditsClass Size: 60

Module manager: Dr Lou Harvey
Email: L.T.Harvey@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Module replaces

EDUC5039M Creative Inquiry, Communication and Learning

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module examines the affordances of creativity and play for learning in a range of education and professional development environments. It will draw on creative and playful modes to stimulate experimentation, curiosity and imagination, and explore the ways in which these can engage diverse forms of learning and knowledge-making. It will be of interest to education practitioners wishing to expand their creative repertoires, and to creative practitioners wishing to theorise the educational dimensions of their work.

Objectives

The module aims to examine the affordances of creativity and play for learning. It will draw on research and scholarship in creative and play-based inquiry to examine the (co-)creation of diverse forms of knowledge, and reflect on the affordances of these for learning in students’ own professional contexts. Classes will engage students in hands-on creative and play-based activities which they can readily use and adapt in their own educational practice, and support them in the development of activities to enhance their own practice through the encouragement of collaboration, freedom, experimentation and risk-taking.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module you will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:

Critically discuss the affordances of creativity and play for your own learning and development

Critically reflect on specific creative and playful learning approaches and practices, and their relevance in your own professional context

Apply the use of creative and play-based approaches to your own professional practice

Skills outcomes
On successful completion of the module you will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:

4. Collaborative learning with peers through group-based activities

5. Critical thinking and creativity through engaging in and reflecting on activities based on innovation, risk-taking and experimentation

6. Planning and problem-solving through the development of creative and play-based activities to enhance students’ own practice

Syllabus

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Practical	3	2.00	6.00
Seminar	11	2.00	22.00
Private study hours			272.00
Total Contact hours			28.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

The three 2-hour student sharing sessions are designed for students to share and test their ideas, and an opportunity for formative feedback from tutors and peers.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	Coursework	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Patchwork assessment.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 14/05/2024

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