Creative education is intended to break down stereotypes about education by involving the creation of educational products and experiences based on concepts such as
• Reimagining and transforming: public learning spaces such as parks, zoos, conservation and interpretation centres, and museums for ecological intelligence innovations; outdoor experiences from city streets to wilderness for expeditionary learning that goes beyond tourism; mundane learning spaces into extraordinary explorative spaces; caregiving environments such as hospitals and orphanages as well as spaces for healing practises and mindfulness
• Creating concepts and prototypes: Low-cost smart tools and high-performance technologies; New media and digital platforms for communication, collaboration, and co-creation; toys and materials with an edge
• Storytelling vs. Facttelling: Using various devices and disciplines to convey narratives and explanations.
What kind of profession or job can I seek after graduating as a creative educator?
Designing materials and objects that build learners can engage with. Design experiences and encounters to facilitate learning. Work in and design material for open learning spaces such as museums, interpretation centres, NGOs and non-profit. While this program equips you with skills and practice to teach for the 21st century, this degree may not be equivalent to a B.Ed. in terms of eligibility criteria. Do refer to our opportunities section to get an entire list of openings you can avail being equipped with this degree.
Here is a checklist to help you decide if this course is right for you.
1) Do you enjoy or see yourself working with people, particularly children and teenagers?
2) Do you enjoy or envision yourself telling stories and dramatising in order to elicit emotions and thoughts?
3) Do you get a lot of satisfaction from explaining and assisting people in making sense?
4) Do you enjoy learning new things and persevering in overcoming obstacles?
5) Do you enjoy creating, experimenting with materials, and designing things?
6) Do you intend to open a maker space or a creative learning space?
7) Do you see yourself designing learning experiences, whether in a classroom or in public places such as parks and museums?
8) Do you enjoy playing?
9) Can you adapt and be flexible in uncertain and unpredictable situations?
10) Are you willing to change the way you learn?
11) Do you intend to create materials and artefacts for others?
If you answered yes to even half of these questions, then creative education can certainly meet your needs.
Is it possible for me to continue my education after this course?
Yes, after completing the Creative Education programme, students can pursue a master's degree in India or abroad. They can look into programmes in education or education-related fields.
Sets of Capabilities
Graduates will have developed the following skills after successfully completing this course:
Capability to make sense of and interact with the world around you: Use art, design, and technology tools as an extension of your senses to engage in the world with curiosity. Exploration, negotiation, exchange, collaboration, perspective, and reciprocation should be used to achieve social and ecological harmony in relationships and environments.
Capability for creative, critical, and reflective inquiry: question, map, identify, take perspective, find patterns, analyse, give and receive feedback, use and create non-linear thinking and inquiry tools and techniques Document and make visible one's own and others' (peers, learning groups, and experts in the field) learning and thinking as a creative inquiry engine.
Thinking through making: Engage in play and speculative experimentation with physical and digital materials and media to foster ideas, imagination, and intuition. Improve your practise with repetition, ritual, iteration, conversation, and reflection.
Capability to facilitate others' learning: Animate oneself, space, material, and situation to provoke, evoke, and facilitate learning. Use sensitivity, aesthetics, and restraint to help diverse learners discover their own learning rhythms.
Capability to develop resourcefulness and adaptability and to find learning opportunities everywhere: Reclaim underutilised and inefficient spaces and reimagine them for ecological regeneration and new literacy. Recognize frugality as a value and engage and leverage local and non-traditional resources such as learning spaces, people, and materials.
