Exploring the Role of Creativity in VI Education
Presented on 12 June 2009
Dr David Feeney, VIScotland
Objectives of Today's Sessions
- Not a regular in-service session on how to improve handwriting, punctuation or sentence structure
- No great emphasis on the development of practical skills
- Offers insight into aspects of the experience of visual impairment which can inform the creative outlook of your pupils
- Outline the developmental importance of first-hand experience and review a selection of ways to facilitate it
- Review ways in which research into VI conducted outside the formal domain of educational studies might be applied to your teaching approach
- Leave you better positioned to confidently help your visually impaired students find a voice that is uniquely theirs
- Help make your classroom a democracy of the senses
Structure of Course
- Introductions
- The role and evolving status of the senses in learning
Session 1
- Perspectives on the sensory hierarchy
- Learning and the Senses
- Non-visual sense of place
- Outdoor/indoor and the role of the body (somatic participation)
- VI and outdoor education
Session 2
- Perspectives on the senses
- Outdoor education continued
- Art and the non-visual senses
- The aesthetic experience
- order and spontaneity
- Spontaneity and the experience of VI
Session 3
- Perspectives on the senses
- educational
- cultural
- psychological
Session 4
- Celebrating creativity
- Exercises
- Bringing the outdoors in
- Feedback