Research group: Creative education or educational creativity - the contribution of arts to creative education and social emotional learning
About Us:
Our research group originates in the Department for the Integration of Arts in Education – Faculty of Education, Oranim Academic College. Our goal is to research and observe processes of growth and personal development in the educational field, and investigate how tools taken from the discipline of art promote these processes.
The ability to experience growth and development of both teachers and students within the various frameworks of formal education is of significance to the learning environment itself. Until now, research has been scarce on how integration of arts in educational processes contributes and promotes significant learning and personal development among male and female students for education and instruction, as well as male and female pupils. Therefore, we decided to focus on research in this field, assuming that it may contribute considerably to processes of growth and significant learning.
We have opted for commencing our research group with a literature narrative review, in order to learn and become acquainted with ongoing research and theory on our topics of interest (meaningful learning and developmental processes, education for creativity, artistic tools from other disciplines). We aimed at developing conceptual and applied tools for integrating the arts in education, and to create a uniform language that includes development, social emotional learning and arts. The narrative review has been published at JEA (Journal of the arts & education), 20 January, 2024. Next, we have conducted the following practical research, investigating processes of growth and development among student-teachers regarding their exposure to creative components and artistic tools in their academic course. A third study is to be conducted this year, regarding their experiences as teachers that use artistic tools to enhance teaching