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Wise Humanising Creativity: Changing How We Create in a Virtual Learning Environment
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, University of Exeter, Graduate School of Education, Exeter, United Kingdom ; , James Cook University, Townsville, Australia ; , , University of Exeter, Graduate School of Education, Exeter, United Kingdom ; , University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria ; , Ellinogermaniki Agogi, R&D Department, Greece

International Journal of Game-Based Learning Volume 7, Number 4, ISSN 2155-6849 Publisher: IGI Global

Abstract

This article interrogates how a particular conception of creativity: ‘wise humanising creativity' (WHC) is manifest within a virtual learning environment (VLE) with children and young people. It reports on the outcomes of C2Learn, a three-year European Commission funded project which introduced innovative digital gaming activities to foster co-creativity in the VLE between players. Theoretically the paper builds on previous work, which has conceptualised the potential for WHC within VLEs, as well as other educational contexts. Within C2Learn, arguments have been made for WHC as an antidote to overly-marketised, competitive notions of creativity, as well as for WHC supporting a view of childhood and youth as empowered—rather than ‘at risk'—within digital environments. In particular, this paper focuses on outcomes of the project's final piloting in England, Greece and Austria across the primary and secondary age ranges. This research employed a bespoke co-creativity assessment methodology developed for the project. In order to document WHC, this methodology opted to evidence developments in lived experience via qualitative methods including teacher and student interviews, fieldnotes, video capture, observation and student self-assessment tools. The paper articulates how WHC manifests in C2Learn's unique VLE or C2Space, and its potential to develop more nuanced understandings of creativity across digital environments. It then goes on to consider WHC as a useful concept for changing how we create within VLEs, and the implications for educational futures debates and wider understanding of creativity in education as a less marketised and more ethically driven concept.

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Chappell, K., Walsh, C., Wren, H., Kenny, K., Schmoelz, A. & Stouraitis, E. (2017). Wise Humanising Creativity: Changing How We Create in a Virtual Learning Environment. International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 7(4), 50-72. IGI Global. Retrieved May 17, 2022 from .

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