Reimagining Teacher Education: Embedding Creativity to Strengthen Agency, Resilience, and Identity

Arts Council of Wales is supporting a new international research project, Empowering pre-service teachers through collective creative pedagogies led by Dr Lisa Stephenson, Carnegie School of Education, Leeds Beckett University with partners across eight universities worldwide, including Swansea University.

Project partners are working together to design and test creative ways of teaching that help new teachers develop social-emotional understanding, ethical awareness and confidence in their practice.

For Arts Council of Wales, this work builds directly on its Creative Learning Cymru programme; innovative national pathways that use the arts to support teaching across all subjects, from maths and science to numeracy and citizenship. Since 2015, Creative Learning Cymru has collaborated with over 90% of schools in Wales; engaged almost 400,000 learners; trained over 7,600 teaching professionals and almost 4,000 creative professionals.

International research from ...