Dr Paul MartinInQbate - CETL in Creativity

University of Brighton

FDTL - TQEF5 Phases funded between 1997 and 2009168 projects up to £250k eachTotal funding of £34 millionAcross all subject areas

HEFCE published aims to:-Stimulate developments in learning and teachingSecure the widest possible involvement of

institutions in the take-up and implementation of good practice

Why are we here today?To celebrate FDTL with fellow journeywomen/menTo share and learn from our experiencesTo celebrate our successesTo engage in an act of closureTo look to the future

After all if you are here you are probably a change agent!

So what do you want to get out of these two days?

Why did you get involved ?Because it was thereYou are a developer of people or ideasYou are interested in......To change the world or at least your part of itTo develop your career Pay the mortgage ...........................To make the world a better place!

The Purpose of HECultivating Humanity (Nussbaum 1997) - liberalis

Continuity and fidelity discouraging critical reflectionProduce free citizens not from wealth or birth but because

they can call their minds their own (Seneca) Feinberg's (1993) models of the social function of

education As mainly economic and vocational and concerned with

the transmission of technically exploitable knowledge.As mainly political and cultural to further social participation

through the development of interpretive understanding

Change and stabilityTuche – luck / randomness of life or ‘just what

happens’ Techne – human art or science developed in order

to mitigate against tuche. Eudaimonia – ‘human flourishing’ – Socrates saw

this not just as power and wealth but guided by moral virtue, a good life.

Nietzsche

“one must have chaos in one’s soul in order to give birth to a dancing star”

From the dance between chaos and form comes learning and creativity

Dionysian The will to chaosPrimal void of potentialQuantum void, Nirvana,

Tao etc.Tendency to change

Apollonian The will to formManifestation of the

universeTendency to stability

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Creativity Creativity is –

UbiquitousThe meeting of Dionysus and Apollo, where poetic

intoxication is tempered by the demands of structure, logic and rationality (D. Peat / Nietzsche)

A force which manifests itself in time and spaceWithout morality

To be creative we walk the line between chaos and form

Ehrenzweig’s model of Creativity. Initial state –

fragmentationDe-differentiation

Attendant anxieties must be tolerated

Third state – re-introjection

or integration re-differentiation conscious

awareness of new whole

Second state – initiate unconscious scanningIntegrate new structure

through countless cross ties

Creativity and Transformative learning

In Transformative Learning we literally re-create ourselves (Mezirow)

Learning is a creative process‘The being of ourselves is meaning; the being of

society is meaning…[therefore] a change of meaning is a change of being’ (Bohm)

Can happen when people realise that reality is not fixed but ‘patterns of shifting, responsive potential’ (Zohar)

CETL daughter of FDTL ‘InQbate’ CETL in Creativity

Wizards' in Higher EducationThe essence of the wizard is transformation (Chopra)The wizard teaches alchemy which is about change,

transformation and enlightenmentThe wizard helps others cleanse their ‘doors of

perception’ so they can begin to see the unseen world

The uncertainty you feel within you is the doorway to wisdom

Wizards help to create seekersYou are Wizards

Your successes through FDTL

Share with the person next to you something which went very well or which you are proud of

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Your successes through FDTLBuilt communities in a climate of competitionDeveloped and brought skills of project management to

HEPromoted a focus on Learning and Teaching against

prevailing climate of Research and Knowledge TransferPromoted cross and interdisciplinary approachesSupported and pioneered the development of learning

and teaching practiceExplored and developed L&T technologies Peopled HE with a new breed of educatorsDeveloped and changed yourself and others

Quo Vadis ‘whither go-est thou’

the green chapel

now you set foot on the threshold

the world outdoors

before you like a map of dreams

I am not that hero

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New beginningsLook in your mirror;

you might see

the image of someone retreating before your face

Then

with a single step

your journey starts...

(Sir Gawain and the green knight – Carolyn Trant)

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Message to your futureTake your postcard

Put on it your name and address

What step will you take next towards developing your inner wizard? Write this as a memo to yourself.

Hand it in to me and I will post it to you in a weeks time

ReferencesBohm, D. 1998, ‘On Creativity’. London. Routledge.Chopra, D., 1996, The Way of the Wizard. London.

Rider.Erhenzweig, A. 1984ed, ‘The Hidden Order of Art’.

California. Uni of California Press.Mezirow, J. 1991, ‘Transformative Dimensions of Adult

Learning’. Oxford. Jossey-Bass.Nietzsche, 1969ed, ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’. London.

Penguin Classics.

ReferencesNussbaum, M, 1993ed, The Fragility of

goodness. Cambridge. Cambridge Uniniversity Press.

Nussbaum, M. 1997, ‘Cultivating humanity’. Cambridge. Cambridge Uniniversity Press.

Peat, D. 2000, The Blackwinged Night. New York. Basic Books.

Contacts and informationUniversity of Brighton Creativity Centre

website (www.brighton.ac.uk/creativity)

InQbate CETL in creativity website – (www.inqbate.co.uk)

Dr Paul Martin – (p.r.martin@brighton.ac.uk)

Martin Studios website – (www.martinstudios.co.uk)