The Artistic and Creative Education program is designed to encourage pro-active and collaborative approaches to educational research and research-led teaching. The members believe in the inextricable nexus between practice and research. The members also believe in the power of artistic and arts-rich pedagogy and curriculum, in schools and in all contexts of lifelong learning. We believe that creativity is already becoming recognized as an essential capability for personal, social, community and working life in the 21st Century, and we pursue ways of developing and fostering creativity in our own students and in all educational systems, formal and informal. We envisage that our artistic and creative forms of teaching and research will inform each other in such a way that new teaching courses and subjects driven by the academic principles, and a new major research theme for the Graduate School, will all be realised.
