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Recreating English? Exploring creativity in language, literature and creative writing

Recreating English? Exploring creativity in language, literature and creative writing . HEA-funded seminar The Open University 15 March 2013. Recreating English? Exploring creativity in language, literature and creative writing .

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Recreating English? Exploring creativity in language, literature and creative writing

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  1. Recreating English? Exploring creativity in language, literature and creative writing HEA-funded seminarThe Open University15 March 2013

  2. Recreating English? Exploring creativity in language, literature and creative writing OU contacts: Fiona Doloughan, Derek Neale, Philip Seargeant, Joan SwannCarol Johns-MacKenzieHEA: Nicole King

  3. Creativityand English An undergraduate education in English and cognate subjects should: • …… • promote the understanding and practice of verbal creativity and the formal and aesthetic dimensions of literary texts QAA (2007) English Benchmark statement

  4. Creative writing (English) Its tangible outcomes may take the form of the production of original works of imagination in prose, verse, or dramatic form, or may take the form of creative rewriting, or adaptation of existing texts.QAA English benchmark statements (2007)

  5. Creativity in everyday language … creativity is a pervasive feature of spoken language exchanges as well as a key component in interpersonal communication, and […] it is a property actively possessed by all speakers and listeners; it is not simply the domain of a few creatively gifted individuals. Ronald Carter (2004) Language and Creativity: the art of common talk

  6. The democratization of creativity? … there are, essentially, no ‘ordinary’ activities, if by ‘ordinary’ we mean the absence of creative interpretation and effort. […] We create our human world as we have thought of art as being created. Raymond Williams (1961) The Long Revolution Little c creativity … focuses on the resourcefulness and agency of ordinary people, rather than the extraordinary contributions and insights of the few. It has to do with a ‘can-do’ attitude to ‘real life’ …” Anna Craft (2001) ‘Little c Creativity’ (in Creativity in Education, eds Craft, Jeffrey and Leibling)

  7. creativitywords

  8. artistryartartfulness • novelinnovativeneworiginal literarinessliterarypoetic • play • inventivenessinventiondiscovery • imaginationimaginative • transformationtranslationchangeadaptationrewriting • aestheticperformance • craft

  9. creativityboundaries

  10. highculture transformation individual everydaypractice originality collaborative fact fiction modes and media languages and cultures texts, practices,audience/reception

  11. Creativity as semiotic practice

  12. Creativity questions • How should we define/delimit the idea of creativity? • What may the idea of creativity contribute to the development of English as a subject? • What value may it add to teaching in different areas of English (language, literature, creative writing, other areas)? • How may it foster connections between different areas?

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