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Helena Gosling; Lol Burke; Sarah MacLennan – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2020
Despite the presence of a widening participation agenda, people with criminal convictions face a number of barriers accessing and participating in higher education (Office for Students, 2019). This may be due to unspent criminal convictions (Unlock, 2018), limited confidence and self-esteem (Champion and Noble, 2016), a lack of previous…
Descriptors: College Students, Nontraditional Students, Criminals, Correctional Rehabilitation
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Patrick Sullivan – College Composition and Communication, 2015
There has been a remarkable surge of interest in creativity in a wide variety of disciplines in recent years. Taken in aggregate, this body of work now theorizes creativity as a--foundational aspect of human cognition and intelligence. If we theorize creativity as a highly sophisticated and valuable form of cognition, it must also then be regarded…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Ritter, Kelly – College English, 2007
Many graduate creative writing programs depend on "star" faculty who have been hired more because of their professional reputation as writers than because of their commitment to teaching. As a result, such programs often fail to provide reflection on teaching that would truly serve their students. One step toward alleviating this problem is to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Creative Writing, Creative Development, Teamwork
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King, Nancy – Harvard Educational Review, 2007
Early in her life, Nancy King discovered that stories are rich sources of wisdom, imagination, creativity, and comfort. In this essay, King describes her personal experiences developing and using the collaborative storymaking process with young people and adults in various school settings. The author states that collaborative storymaking…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Personal Narratives, Cooperative Learning, Creativity