Paul Collard has been the Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education, where he retired from. He has 25 years’ experience of working in the arts and is an expert in delivering programs that use creativity and culture as drivers of social and economic change.

'We defined the creative habits of mind: curious, inquisitive, persistent, disciplined and collaborative. I believe that creativity is the way we learn. I believe that learning is the most wonderfull thing we humans have came up with. But the tragedy is that most children are locked out of learning, by schools, who do not promote learning, but promote schooling.'

More about Paul, CCE or the projects mentioned through the following links:

• A Talk by Paul
• Website CCE
• Website Europe in Perspective

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Miranda Siemelink workes as a project lead at the Lab, from CultuurOost. The Lab is a professional learning community, consisting of arts educators, teachers, students from both art school and teacher training, artists, musicians and other experts.

They spend 4 years working together on enhancing arts education, divided in different groups. The Lab that Miranda has worked on, one of four, was centered around maker education.

Listen to her story and key learnings from this Lab.

'What do new teachers need, to do their profession around maker education? An open mind, work with open ended questions and the willingness to go into the process.'

You can find Miranda or more info about her work through the following links:

• LinkedIN
• Website Lab Kunst en Techniek
• Video: The art of making

This podcast is part of I-TAP-PD. To find out more about this project go to: https://i-tap-pd.net/

You'll find us on these social networks:

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Jane O'Hanlon, education officer of Poetry Ireland. We talk about the initiative Writers in Schools. She started as a teacher in a prison. She tells us what she learned from the inmates and still uses in her work. And she talks about how she thinks the arts help children to ask the big questions.

'The most powerfull experience of my teaching career has been reading King Lear with the inmates. They knew King Lear from the inside. It was a great example of how arts can help reflect and learn.'

You can find Jane or more info about Poetry Ireland through the following links:

• Website Poetry Ireland
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Poems by students

This podcast is part of I-TAP-PD. To find out more about this project go to: https://i-tap-pd.net/

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