The Creativity Showcase for Higher Education is a one-day National Forum that was held at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane on Friday 7 December 2007.
Invited university teachers across all disciplines showcased their teaching and learning practices that enhance creativity in undergraduate courses. The aim was to identify and promote excellence in undergraduate teaching through documenting and disseminating the work and learning outcomes of Australia’s most creative university teachers. These teachers have shared creative ideas, concepts, designs and products that are outcomes of their undergraduate teaching.
One of the main themes for the day was the issue of the development for creative expression for the purpose of interaction of growth and teaching Vs the notion of expression as a piece of property. Several issues surrounding higher education and its relevance in today’s society were also key points.
Professor Erica McWilliam
2006 ALTC Associate Fellow
Queensland University of Technology
Professor McWilliam is Adjunct Professor and Program Leader, Creative Workforces with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation at QUT. Erica is both a distinguished and widely published educational scholar, and national leader of educational research.
Erica has completed her Fellowship, submitting her final report in December 2007.
Title of Fellowship: Developing pedagogical models for building creative workforce capacities in
undergraduate students
This Fellowship sought to address the lack of clarity regarding the specific teaching practices that actively develop
creative workforce capacity in undergraduate students. The project addressed this lack of clarity by investigating
pedagogical processes and products that can build creative workforce capacities in undergraduate students.
The key research questions for the project were aligned to all Carrick Strategic Priority Areas.
• What does pedagogical work for creative workforce capacity building actually look like in practice?
• What are the barriers to teaching for creative workforce capacity building and how can they be overcome?
The aim was to address these questions by identifying, documenting and disseminating pedagogical methods for
building creative workforce capacities in undergraduate students. Five project objectives arose out of these aims:
1. To understand the relationship between pedagogical work and creative workforce capacity building in formal
learning environments.
2. To investigate examples of pedagogical processes and products that characterise a creativity-centred
learning environment.
3. To identify barriers arising in pedagogical work for creative workplace capacity building.
4. To develop models of engagement that can overcome these barriers.
5. To disseminate these models among key stakeholders in higher education teaching and learning.
Resources related to Fellowship
Professor McWilliam produced an extensive list of publications on her Fellowship. A list of which may be found at the bottom of this page.
Fellowship reports
Developing pedagogical models for building creative workforce capacities in undergraduate students
Fellowship Forum
National Creativity Showcase: including organisation, co-ordination and a keynote presentation, held at the Queensland University of Technology, 6-7 December 2007 www.creativityshowcase.qut.edu.au
