Nurturing Creativity in Young People Roberts, P. 2006 a Report to Government

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Nurturing Creativity in Young People

A report to Government to inform future policy

Paul RobertsJuly 2006


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The Department for Culture, Media and

Sports aim is to improve the quality

of life for all through cultural and

sporting activities, support the pursuitof excellence, and champion the

tourism, creative and leisure industries.

The Department for Education and

Skills aim is to help build a competitive

economy and inclusive society by:

Creating opportunities for everyone

to develop their learning

Releasing potential in people to make

the most of themselves

Achieving excellence in standards of

education and levels of skills.


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This report was jointly commissioned by:Andrew Adonis Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Skills

James Purnell Minister for Creative Industries and Tourism (until May 2006)David Lammy Minister for Culture

ContributorsMaria Balshaw Director of External Relationships and Development, Arts

Council England, West MidlandsTom Bewick Chief Executive, Creative and Cultural SkillsPat Cochrane Chief Executive, Cape UKDavid Cracknell Chair of Trustees, Cape UK

Jonathan Douglas Head of Learning and Access at the Museums, Libraries andArchives Council (MLA)

Joe Hallgarten Learning Director, Creative PartnershipsValerie Hannon Adviser on Creativity to DfES

Graham Jeffery Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Performing Arts,University of East LondonCharles Leadbeater Associate, DemosRuth MacKenzie Executive Director, Manchester International FestivalPete McGuigan Development Manager, Cape UKPeter Muschamp Former HMI and Ofsteds Specialist Adviser for Art and DesignPauline Tambling Executive Director, Development, Arts Council EnglandShelagh Wright Associate, Demos

Particular thanks also to Sarah Songhurst-Thonet and Colleen Barron from DCMSfor their support in producing this report.

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I was delighted to be asked by Ministers in DCMS andDfES to undertake this review. In it I have drawn on myexperience as teacher, inspector, Director of Education

in Nottingham and Haringey but most of all on thelarge number of colleagues in the Education/ChildrensServices and Creativity Sectors who have contributedto the debate and writing for this report.

I am particularly grateful to the Improvement and

Development Agency for allowing me to undertakethis work.

Paul Roberts

Director of Strategy (Improvement and Development Agency)([email protected])

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5 Executive Summary 8 Overview

Sections20 A The Creative Portfolio27 B Creativity in the Early Years33 C Extended Schools

39 D New Environments Building Schools for the Future45 E Leading Creative Learning: developing creativity in leadership,

initial teacher education and continuing professional development51 F Does practitioner partnership earn its keep?57 G New Pathways to Creative Industries61 H Frameworks of Regulation and Support

Appendices

67 1 Creativity Review Response Summary71 2 The Voice of Children and Young People73 3 Creativity Review Seminar

Contents

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Executive Summary

BackgroundIn June 2005, James Purnell, Ministerfor Creative Industries, spoke at theInstitute for Public Policy Research(IPPR) conference, Making Britain theWorlds Creative Hub. He reflectedon what it was about our educationalsystem that fosters creativity,indicating that we should build ourpolicies on that success to lookat what more we can do to nurture

young creative talent, and to look fora clear set of assumptions which willhelp to inform the basis of our future

policy on creativity.

This report is a direct response toJames Purnells request and offers:

A clear framework for the furtherdevelopment of creativity forchildren and young people

A progression within this frameworkthat starts with the Early Years, isembedded in (but goes beyond)mainstream education, develops apersonalised approach, seeks to beinclusive of and responsive to thevoice of children and young peopleand leads to pathways into

Creative Industries

The key messages:

There is a rich array of creativity work in pre-and main-school activity strongly, but notsystemically, supported by the many creativeprogrammes, projects and agencies

The characteristics of the developing educationpolicy context (autonomy, commissioning,personalisation) offer positive opportunitiesfor the embedding of creativity in education

Stronger connections between that creativity

work and the emerging policy context ineducation and childrens services wouldproduce a win-win creativity embeddedin these developments and, reciprocally,these developments enhanced by the impactof creativity

This would provide a more secure, valued

and cost-effective framework for the furtherdevelopment of creativity, both its own rightand as a support for economic growth, with

better outcomes for children andyoung people

There is a need to construct a more coherentcreativity offer which is then activelymanaged/brokered into the new context ofschool and personal autonomy

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What is your sculpture about?

My Mum, Dad and sister.

Where did your ideas come from?

From my dreams.

How pleased are you with your sculpture?

I am very happy and excited to makethe sculpture.

What was your favourite bit of the project?

Making the flowers.

What is your sculpture about?

Me and my daughter Jennifer. Its aboutthe traditional houses years ago in myhome country Madeira, Portugal.

Where did your ideas come from?

It comes from my Grandmothers house,which looks the same.

How pleased are you with your sculpture?

Very pleased, next time I think Ill do

better because I learned so much thefirst time.

What was your favourite bit of the project?

Everything was my favourite, I enjoyedevery minute. I achieved something I

never thought Id be able to do.



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Building policies on success

The contextWhile Britain has an enviable creativeheritage and world class creativeindustries we need a fresh impetusthat builds on this rich tradition if we areto remain successful in a global marketplace.2 Over the last decade the CreativeIndustry sector has grown twice as fastas the overall economy. It employs twomillion people and accounts for one-twelfth of our economy. Globally theCreative Industries account for 7 percent

of GDP and are growing at 10 percent ayear. James Purnells challenge was toset an ambitious but achievable goalto make Britain the worlds creative hub.The wider context is that creativity isincreasingly required across the wholeworkforce not just that of theCreative Industries.

In his June 2005 speech at the Institutefor Public Policy Research (IPPR)conference, Making Britain the WorldsCreative Hub, James Purnell, Minister

for Creative Industries, reflected on whatit was about our educational systemthat fosters creativity, indicating thatwe should build our policies on thatsuccess to look at what more we can

do to nurture young creative talent, andto look for a clear set of assumptionswhich will help to inform the basis of ourfuture policy on creativity.

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This report is the response to thatrequest to inform the basis of futurepolicy on creativity.

1Making Britain the Worlds Creative Hub

James Purnell at Institute for Public Policy

Reasearch, June 16th 2006.2

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