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Training Talk - Creativity and the Arts

Committing significant time and money to learning about creativity has helped Victoria Waring provide better learning opportunities. By Gabriella Jozwiak

Instilling creativity in children is about more than doing arts and crafts, as Madeley Nursery School educator Victoria Waring (pictured)recently discovered during a year-long course on Creativity and the Arts in Early Childhood. Telford-based Ms Waring began the distance-learning course, one module of a three-year MA in Education (Early Years) at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC), in September 2018.

The Birmingham City University-accredited course involved five face-to-face days at CREC, while students completed the rest through self-study. Ms Waring had to produce two pieces of written work: a 3,000-word essay on creativity and arts theory, and a 6,000-word case study – hers on storytelling.

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