3rd Global Conference

Friday 9th February - Sunday 11th February 2007
Sydney, Australia

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Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.1.5)

Friday 9th February 2007
from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Phil Fitzsimmons

14.15
Session 1: The Physicality of Creativity
Chair: Phil Fitzsimmons

Mike Hagan
The Story of a Small School - A Narrative of Intersecting Histories

Hsiu-Tyan Chuang
Children’s Creative Evaluations of School Physical Environments

15.45
Tea/Coffee Break

16.15
Session 2: Another View of Creative Engagement
Chair: Mike Hagan

Kori Nemme
The ‘Hero’s Journey’: Personal Resonance as Response to Narrative

Lyn Hawkins
Digital Stories and Animations: Engaging Creativity in Education

Rob Davis
Cultural Contexts and Critical Thinking in Children’s Engagement with Texts: Indigenous Australian Artist-in-Residence and Text Creation in a Primary School

17.45
Wine Reception

 

Saturday 10th February
09.00
Session 3:  Creative Engagement as an Ideal
Chair: Elizabeth McIntyre

Keith Peters
Broadening the Definition of School’

Susan Renn
Restorative Practices as an Engagement Strategy in Schools

Syeda Absar
Human Rights Education and Training in Schools in Bangladesh

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Creativity and ‘Flow’
Chair: Susan Renn

Elizabeth McIntyre
Encouraging Creativity: Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow and Motivation

Phillip McIntyre
Rethinking Creative Practice in the Light of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Systems Model of Creativity.

Michael Meany
Humour, Anxiety and Csikszentmihalyi’s Concept of Flow

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Creative Engagement in Alternate Sources
Chair: Michael Meany

Raelene Anderson
Engaging Children with the Concept of Beauty: A Joint Investigation of Current Advertising

Phil Fitzsimmons/ Barbra McKenzie
The New Symbolic Space: The use of popular culture as tools of engagement

Susan Davis
Drama, Engagement and Creativity

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 6: From Philosophy to Action
Chair: Raelene Anderson

Laurelle Bird
Engagement of Students with Challenging Behaviours in a Specialist Unit

Jennifer Bleazby
Imagination, Thinking and Education: Dewey’s Notion of Imagination and its Facilitation in the Philosophy for Children Classroom

Andy Ruddock
Distinctively Public: Young People, Fire Offending and the Creation of Citizenship in the UK

17.30 Sessions End

 

Sunday 11th February
09.30
Session 7: Creative Engagement in the Language Arts
Chair: Jennifer Bleazby

Cheryl Freeman
Mountains to the Sea: Engaging Students with Learning Difficulties through Creativity

Lyn Hawkins
Animations: Engaging English, literacy, media and art curriculum outcomes

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Creative Engagement as Creative Learning
Chair: Lyn Hawkins

Jeni Mawter
Critical Thinking, Creativity and Humorous Texts

Alan Tapper
“But that doesn’t follow!”: The Elusive Inference in the Classroom

Ruth Hewston
The Personalisation of Creative Learning: A Case Study

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Creative Engagement as a Source of Empowerment
Chair: Alan Tapper

Eija Riitta Parkkinen
Art Making Process as Communicative Activity for Dysphasic Children

Lorenzo Vigentini
Autistic Children at Play: Injecting Fun into Research and Clinical Paradigms

15.30
Tea

16.00
Development Meeting and Conference Close