_______ It can ________

It can

Positive

Affect positive change

Can change peoples perception of other people - creative learning happens face to face, you learn about other learners and you all go on a journey together - lots of incidental learning - ‘what’s your job?’ ‘what do you think of this?’ ‘what would you do if..?’

Can change peoples perceptions of artists and in turn change their perception of the value of creative thinking and learning

Can change the public’s perception of artists - professionals - worthwhile career to pursue - social worth.

Re-introduce “no right or wrong answer” into a formal education setting

Remind adults that they can learn new things outside of their jobs and outside of formal education

Test barriers between professionalism and amateurism - you are not just defined by what you are paid to do - who are the experts - now that you are an expert, who can you help become experts too?

Increase participants awareness of their own thinking

Increase participants’ awareness of their preferred learning style

Inform participants that there are other ways to learn that what they may remember from their own education

Allow participants access to knowledge they may not have been able to access through formal education models

Metacognition - learning about learning.

Increased respect between participants of intergenerational projects

Increased mutual understanding of participants from different aspects of a local community.

 

Negative

Gets lost in itself

Gets lost along the way - too much shared planning and co-construction - no direction

Feels at loggerheads with what education institutions are judged against - namely league table and exam results.

difficult to fund as funders want outcomes

less time for ‘skills’ teaching - participants don’t have the basic skills to access creative learning