Webinar #38 | Pamela Burnard - Sculpting New Creativities

A new vision for why children need arts and arts need children for future-making education.

Pam has spent years building projects which, collectively, evidence why children need arts and arts need children. These projects see through a posthumanist, new materialist lens what it means to think, perform and educate for multiple creativities. In this presentation, Pam will share narratives and reports of experimental and exploratory practices, which unleash children’s voices on and views about which creativities we should be educating for. Together we will explore how to re-vision children and the arts, entangled in material and embodied processes which connect directly to real-world, professional practices. Her results also invite reflection on how sculpting new creativities opens up fresh pathways in evidencing why arts are imperative for children’s future-making education, illuminated through the new arts-sciences of transdisciplinary creativities, collective creativities, digital creativities, and a whole world of other evolving possibilities.

Pamela Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She has published  20 books and over 100 articles which advance the theory and practice of multiple creativities across education sectors, including early years, primary, secondary, further and higher education, through to creative and cultural industries. She is co-editor of the international journal Thinking Skills and Creativity. She has had three careers beginning her working life in the creative industries, then teaching across Early Years-Primary-Secondary sectors, and now as a researcher-academic-author-consultant in Higher Education. She is also a proud Australian!