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THE FIRST NORTHUMBRIA CREATIVITY CONFERENCE - Enhancing students' creativity
- Creating the creative university
Wednesday 30th August - Friday, 1st September 2000
University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Longhirst Campus

There are still several places available at this conference, details of
which are given below.

Details of the conference abstracts are available from the DeLiberations
site at http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/gateway/other-sites.html#conf
the Conference Proceedings and Abstracts section. This information is also
accessible via http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/eff.learning/index.html
the Effective Learning section.


Following on from the success of the four previous international Northumbria
higher education conferences on assessment, it is our intention to hold the
First Northumbria Creativity conference. The aim of this conference will be
to explore the ways in which educational and organisational development may
enable students to enhance their creativity, in or across all disciplines.

The format of the Northumbria Creativity Conference will be highly
participative. Much of our work will be undertaken in thematic task groups,
which will be commissioned to adopt imaginative approaches to the design of:
*	Teaching, learning and assessment methods
*	Higher education curricula
*	Learning environments
*	Staff development strategies
*	Academic departments
*	Universities and colleges, and government policies for higher
education, specifically to enhance the creative ability of students (and
therefore, their teachers and managers).

The work of the task groups will be stimulated by keynote talks, workshops
and other resources. Our guest speakers and facilitators will include:

*	Amy Swisher, Creativity Consultant, RiverRun Communications, USA;
*	Graham Rawlinson, Next Step Associates. Innovation Consultant and
TRIZ Specialist;
*	John Abbott, 21st Century Learning Initiative, a transitional
programme to synthesise the best of research and development into the nature
of human learning, and to examine its implications for education, work and
the development of communities worldwide;
*	Caroline Baillie, Lecturer in Materials and in Education
Development; and
*	Simon Dewulf, Researcher, Creativity Project Leaders, Imperial
College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.
*	Heather Hopfl Newcastle Business School, University of Northumbria.

Among the topics for the seminar and workshop sessions will be:
*	Creating space dedicated to learning
*	Tools for creative thinking across disciplines at the University of
Malta
*	Creating an organisational theatre of  learning
*	Creative and affective components of thinking
*	Staff and students' conceptions of creativity
*	A creative approach to business education at Auckland University of
Technology
*	Retaining creativity in the digital global economy
*	Interdisciplinary knowledge creation at the Free University of
Amsterdam
*	The atelier principle in teaching architecture
*	Individual creativity in a mass system of higher education
*	Creativity in students' writing
*	Creativity in the empowered workplace
*	Stimulating right brain thinking at the University of Sydney
*	Critical creative incidents in learning
*	Creative processes in different disciplines at the University of
Technology in Sydney
*	Using imagework in teaching
*	Creativity and self-organised learning in computing

If you would like to receive further details of this event please forward
your contact details, including an e mail address if available to the
following address:

Anne Middleton,
Conference Administrator,
Centre for Advances in Higher Education,
Kielder House,
University of Northumbria at Newcastle,
Coach Lane Campus,
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7XA
UK

Tel: +44 - 0191-215-6022/227-4181
Fax: +44 - 0191-227-4181
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Web address: http://hswe.unn.ac.uk/cahe.htm

Informal queries about the conference can be made to Gwen Marples, member of
the Conference Planning Group at the same address or by e-mail to:
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