Abstract
Understanding students’ creative process in order to identify meaningful ways to nurture, support and develop creative-practice students and enhance teaching and learning is a major challenge within Higher Education (HE). This paper evaluates a project that studied creative writing and visual-practice students’ experiences of specific creative workshops at the University of Brighton. By providing opportunities for students to identify the things within their experiences, memories and even within themselves that inspire their creativity, the study found that it was possible to effectively support and enhance their creative processes. We suggest that the principles of this project can be applied to interdisciplinary academic work and help us to make links between teaching, learning and research. The paper identifies and explores opportunities for interdisciplinary teaching events and collaborative research and considers the potential impact on the authors own practices. We suggest that opportunities for interdisciplinary work and this process of learning through doing have implications for how we design and implement Creative Writing teaching and also on how we manage and carry out our research.
Highlights
In unpredictable times, innovation will be the lifeblood of many industries: Creative Writing can produce self-motivated graduates with exceptional understandings of team process, of two-way communication and of individual creative thinking . . . They generate consumers of Literature who are of entrepreneurial spirit (Munden, 2013: 36).Supporting students in the arts and humanities with their creative and writing processes in order that they develop confidence as communicators, critical thinkers and can write in a variety of styles and genres when they graduate can be challenging
The paper reports on a project in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton where students studying on a creative writing module and fine art students worked together on a series of creative tasks and discussed their individual and shared creative processes
The report locates creative wring as an important area within Britain’s economic landscape suggesting that, ‘Creative writing underpins around 75% of Britain’s creative industries [. . . which] had the largest growth rate of any of Britain’s industries’ (Munden, 2013: 35). This statistic highlights the ongoing importance and currency of creative writing in Britain and that the focus of studying the subject need not be to develop as a writer in one style or genre but rather, ‘In unpredictable times, innovation will be the lifeblood of many industries: Creative Writing can produce selfmotivated graduates with exceptional understandings of team process, of two-way communication and of individual creative thinking . . . They generate consumers of Literature who are of entrepreneurial spirit’ (Munden, 2013: 36)
Summary
Innovation will be the lifeblood of many industries: Creative Writing can produce self-motivated graduates with exceptional understandings of team process, of two-way communication and of individual creative thinking . . . They generate consumers of Literature who are of entrepreneurial spirit (Munden, 2013: 36).Supporting students in the arts and humanities with their creative and writing processes in order that they develop confidence as communicators, critical thinkers and can write in a variety of styles and genres when they graduate can be challenging. Which] had the largest growth rate of any of Britain’s industries’ (Munden, 2013: 35) This statistic highlights the ongoing importance and currency of creative writing in Britain and that the focus of studying the subject need not be to develop as a writer in one style or genre but rather, ‘In unpredictable times, innovation will be the lifeblood of many industries: Creative Writing can produce selfmotivated graduates with exceptional understandings of team process, of two-way communication and of individual creative thinking . Rather (and in direct opposition to Kureshi’s view) creative writing courses should support students to develop an arsenal of creative, critical and writing skills that will help them to impact on and enhance creative industries
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