Narelle Lemon

Arts education provides students with opportunities to build knowledge and skills in self-expression, imagination, creative and collaborative problem solving, and creation of shared meanings. Engagement in arts education has also been said to positively affect overall academic achievement, and the development of empathy. Representations of Working in Arts Education provides key insights from stakeholders across the teaching and learning spectrum...

Co-authored by an international team of experts across disciplines, this important book is one of the first to demonstrate the enormous benefit creative methods offer for education research. You do not have to be an artist to be creative, and Creative Research Methods in Education encourages students, researchers, and practitioners to discover and consider new ways to explore the field...