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​Creativity and Innovation in Social Care (CISC) Network Ireland
2021 CPD initiative on creativity


Exploring Ecologies for Practice, Learning and Creativity in Social Care Education & Practice

Creativity in social care professional work and related educational practices is an important focus for the Irish Creativity and Innovation in Social Care (CISC) Network’s 2021 CPD initiative. But creativity and being creative mean different things in different contexts and situations and part of the knowledge forming process for this seminar seeks to understand the concepts of creativity that social care practitioners and educators hold.(1)
 
The proposition underlying this contribution to the CISC CPD initiative is that creativity, like learning, is an ecological phenomenon.(2) By this I mean that creativity and being creative emerge as people interact in purposeful ways with their environments and the people, contexts and situations in them. This interactional concept of creativity is neatly captured in Carl Roger’s concept of a creative product growing from a process involving creativity, 'the emergence in action of a novel relational product growing out of the uniqueness of the individual on the one hand, and the materials, events, people or circumstances of [their] life' (3)


The seminar will introduce the idea of ecologies for learning and practice (4,5) and the ecosocial systems within which such ecologies are enacted and consider how creativity emerges from such ecologies as people interact with their environments and the people and things that matter to them. We will explore how these ideas might be used in social care work and educational practice to understand creativity and what being creative means.

Sources
1 Jackson, N.J. (2021) Survey of Perceptions of Creativity in Social Care Work & Education. Social Care (CISC) Network Working Paper. Available at: http://www.normanjackson.co.uk/cisc.html
2 Barnett, R. and Jackson. N.J. (2020) Ecologies for Learning and Practice: Emerging Ideas, Sightings and Possibilities Routledge
3 Rogers, C.R., (1961) On becoming a person. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
4 Jackson N. J. (2016, 2019) Exploring Learning Ecologies Betchworth: Chalk Mountain Available at:
https://www.lifewideeducation.uk/exploring-learning-ecologies.html
5 Learning Ecologies website https://www.learningecologies.uk/

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Exploring Ecologies for Practice, Learning and Creativity in Social Care Education & Practice
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​CISC WORKING PAPERS

​WORKING PAPER 1
Jackson, N.J. (2021) Survey of Perceptions of Creativity in Social Care Work & Education. 
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WORKING PAPER 2A
Jackson N J (2021) Ecological Perspectives on Social Care 
Practice, Education, Learning & Creativity
 CONCEPTS, TOOLS & FRAMEWORKS

​USEFUL LINKS  CREATIVITY & LEARNING ECOLOGIES
Creative Academic Resources page

Creative Academic Magazine page

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Leraning Ecologies Website


Lifewide Education Website

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WORKING PAPER 2B  To be published after the seminar
Jackson N J & Goss L. (2021) Ecological Perspectives on Social Care 
Practice, Education, Learning & Creativity
 APPLYING CONCEPTS, TOOLS & FRAMEWORKS TO PRACTICE

To be posted 13/05/21

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SURVEY OF CREATIVITY IN SOCIAL WORK
​Jackson, N. J.  and Burgess, H. (2005) Creativity in Social Work and Social Work Education  Higher Education Academic Working Paper
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