In 2008, the Creative Workforce Program will continue to build links and partnerships with key stakeholders, expand the Learning Lab Coalition, attract funding of benefit to the Creative Workforce Program, and disseminate Program findings and activities. Planned activities include:
• contributing to the development and promotion of an online repository of creative teaching practices. The repository will consist of exemplars of practice, key themes, recommendations, future collaborations, nodes of contact, and a short film of Creativity Showcase presentations and highlights;
• producing a report on the findings of the Learning Lab Coalition project that will be distributed to key stakeholders, including education authorities; and
• disseminating findings to increase awareness of the creative workforce. For example:
- the eight journal articles accepted or submitted in 2007 will be published in 2008, including one by Erica McWilliam and Sandra Haukka on Educating the Creative Workforce: New directions for schools and universities which will be published in BERJ’s Special Issue on Creativity 2008.
- as part of the ARC Learning Academies project, the Academy of Social Science is producing an edited volume around the contribution of the social sciences disciplines to an understanding of creativity and innovation. The Academy has invited Erica McWilliam to write a chapter on how education systems, learning environments and programs based on different pedagogical models can help foster creativity and innovation.
- Erica McWilliam’s 2008 Senior Fellowship application to the Carrick Institute for Higher Education Learning and Teaching requests funding to investigate how to embed course-long and course-wide creativity in order to enhance pedagogy, curriculum and assessment practice in generic and discipline-specific undergraduate education.