Episodios

  • 20: Programmatic assessment - an introduction by Professor Cees van der Vleuten

    20: Programmatic assessment - an introduction by Professor Cees van der Vleuten
    Jul 12 2021
    What is the purpose of assessment? How can we provide rich feedback to students? Why are grades not enough?
    In this episode, Joe Binetti talks to Cees van der Vleuten from the University of Maastricht. His primary expertise lies in evaluation and assessment, and he introduces us to Programmatic Assessment. Starting from the need for assessing complex skills, "assessing the un-assessable", he leads us through a journey towards programmatic assessment. 
    From the importance of relying on professional judgement to a holistic evaluation of behaviour, he defends the crucial role of narrative and rich feedback fit to stimulating self-directed learning.
    Cees van der Vleuten’s website is here 
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    29 m
  • 19: Creativity and Ethics - a conversation with Kelly Moran

    19: Creativity and Ethics - a conversation with Kelly Moran
    Jul 12 2021
    What role does ethics play in creativity? Should ethics be added as a criterion to define creativity? Kelly shares with us her insights on this crucial matter.
    In this episode, Ciarán Dunne explores one of the most challenging aspects of creativity with Kelly Moran. 
    She starts by describing the importance of a safe space for creativity and the purpose of the connection among different disciplines. She points out the importance of conversations, openness and narratively sharing ideas.
    Then, reflecting on the goal of creativity, Ciaran and Kelly start a discussion on the role of ethics, universal ethics, cancel culture for creativity. 
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    37 m
  • 18: Que sudemos la camiseta! Los requisitos para alcanzar la capacidad creativa - Cristina Esteban Alberdi

    18: Que sudemos la camiseta! Los requisitos para alcanzar la capacidad creativa - Cristina Esteban Alberdi
    Jun 24 2021

    En esta conversación Ciarán Dunne habla con Cristina Esteban Alberdi de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 
    A Cristina le interesa mucho la creatividad y la innovación y en sus clases se dedica a forjar y cultivar la creatividad mediante el uso del espacio y diversas herramientas desarrolladas con el fin de generar ideas e identificar conexiones entre ideas existentes, tales como Design Thinking. 
    Cristina nos comenta sobre las características y las condiciones necesarias para estimular la creatividad y la importancia de conceptualizarla como una habilidad que podemos desarrollar. 
    Sin embargo, como cualquier habilidad, explica que para desarrollarla exige que nos esforcemos – ¡que sudemos la camiseta! Al mantener la conversación en castellano, reconocemos que, por ser un fenómeno universal y una faceta fundamental del ser humano, las perspectivas e ideas sobre la creatividad no se limitan al mundo anglófono.


    In this episode, Ciarán Dunne speaks with Cristina Esteban Alberdi from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. 
    Cristina is very interested in creativity and innovation, and in her classes, she worked to forge and cultivate creativity through space and various tools. These tools are developed to generate ideas and identify connections between existing ideas in the same fashion as Design Thinking. 
    Cristina tells us about the characteristics and conditions necessary to stimulate creativity and the importance of conceptualizing it as a skill that we can develop. However, she explains that to develop creativity we need to work hard - that we have to “sweat the shirt”, sweat our guts out! 
    By maintaining the conversation in Spanish, we recognise that, as creativity is a universal phenomenon and a fundamental facet of the human being, the perspectives and ideas on creativity are not limited to the English-speaking world.
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    53 m
  • 17: Creativity: the last bastion of human ability non hijacked by AI, with David Cropley

    17: Creativity: the last bastion of human ability non hijacked by AI, with David Cropley
    Jun 21 2021
    Professor David Cropley, the internationally recognised expert in creativity and innovation and inventor of the term “malevolent creativity”, is in conversation with Joe Binetti.

    In this episode, David dispels some of the myths of creativity, from the false assumption that creativity is ill-defined to that of seeing creativity erroneously as a male attribute. 

    He shows us why creativity is essential in human life, addressing the obstacles in implementing creative practices. He provides suggestions to students and education practitioners who want to foster their creative potential turning it into creative behaviour. 

    David carefully considers the ethical implications of teaching for creativity, reflecting on the responsibilities of education.
    Go to David Cropley's website here
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    47 m
  • 16: Disrupting education with creativity with Kiene Brillenburg Wurth

    16: Disrupting education with creativity with Kiene Brillenburg Wurth
    Jun 21 2021
    In this episode, Ciaran Dunne interviews Professor Kiene Brillenburg Wurth. She is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media at Utrecht University. 

    From the importance of failure and struggle to that of constraints in creativity, this thought-provoking conversation explores the advantages of challenge-based education, storytelling as a teaching medium, and creativity as a force of self-transformation. 

    She injects disruptions in education without overlooking the importance of knowledge and explores the demands of creativity and the effort required to succeed while re-imagining the educational context.
    Go to Kiene Brillenburg Wurth’s website here
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    40 m
  • 15: What’s the antidote to standardisation in education? A conversation with Ron Beghetto

    15: What’s the antidote to standardisation in education? A conversation with Ron Beghetto
    Jun 21 2021
    How important is it to have a definition for creativity? And how research on creativity can impactfully inform educational practices?

    In this episode, Joe Binetti interviews Professor Ron Beghetto, the internationally recognised expert on creative thought and action in educational settings. 

    He describes some principles that can foster a more creative teaching approach promoting changes to existing teaching, learning, and leadership practices. He outlines the risks of the pedagogies of the sameness, providing ideas and solutions. 

    From the value of the learning experience to the importance of nurturing a plurality of perspectives, Ron gives practical examples of how educational practitioners can transform a lesson by implementing simple strategies and a different understanding of the learning experience, one that values the learning process.
    Go to Ronald Beghetto’s website here 
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    46 m
  • 14: The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Creativity with Kerry Freedman

    14: The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Creativity with Kerry Freedman
    Jun 21 2021
    In this episode, Tim Hannigan meets Professor Kerry Freedman, Professor of Art and Design Education at Northern Illinois University and Coordinator of Doctoral Programs in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. 

    She talks about art education, visual culture and creativity. Which is the social aspect of creativity? What is the relationship between creativity and leadership? How shall we assess creativity? Why is it essential to include failure in the learning path? 

    Kerry addresses these questions and tells us what education can teach other fields or disciplines about fostering and assessing creativity.
    Go to Kerry Freedman’s website here
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    46 m
  • 13: Resilience on the path of creativity with Jonathan Plucker

    13: Resilience on the path of creativity with Jonathan Plucker
    Jun 21 2021
    What is the danger of standardisation in education, how important is the type of feedback provided to students, and the risks involved when engaging in a creative teaching and learning experience?
    In this episode, Professor Jonathan Plucker shares with Joe Binetti his expertise and insights into the practice of creativity. 
    He explores the difficulties experienced by educational practitioners and students, dwelling on the importance of considering the ethical implications of teaching for creativity and giving encouragement and strategies to persist in teaching for creativity.
    Go to Jonathan Pluckers’s website here

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    45 m