Time to Think: Luxury or Lifeline Awards

Time to think: Luxury or Lifeline Awards

Do you need some quiet time to reflect?

Are you on the edge of working out a new approach to your practice?

Do you need a bit of time to work on an idea with a colleague? 

We know that the content of our conference (Creativity: Luxury or Lifeline?  Survive and Thrive in a changing Educational Landscape) will spark ideas and bring new people together.  We want to invest in some of these ideas, so we are offering bursaries to delegates to help progress some of the work initiated on the day. 

Throughout the day you will hear from keynote speakers, CapeUK staff, and conference participants about the great progress that has been made in developing education for creativity over the last decade but they will also be urging us to move practice forward and to evidence our work better.

We are offering ten £1000 bursaries for practitioners who can rise to this challenge.  The bursaries are aimed at practitioners who want to develop their work in one of three areas:- 

-      Capturing and assessing progression in the creativity of young learners

-      Creativity in developing Personal Learning & Thinking Skills in the Secondary Curriculum

-      Creativity in developing Essentials for learning and life in the Primary Curriculum  

This is not funding to run a project, but to free up time for research and reflection and in order to develop new ideas to share with others.  Starting in the summer of 2010 we will run three seminar events at which bursary recipients will share their findings and new ideas with a wider audience. 

So what might you do / how might you invest your bursary?

If you deliver work you could take some time out to observe and reflect rather than deliver.  Turn your observations / thinking into something to share with others. 

Take some time out to develop your own tools, or a system (on or offline) for managing good practice. 

Facilitate and capture a process for young people to address this area of work

Run a staff meeting / event / set up an action learning set or a think tank to explore practice in your school / organisation (perhaps your school / organisation might match fund the bursary which could allow for something more regular or enable you to work on a bigger scale)

Work with a mentor to look at how to develop your practice (CapeUK have a number of staff and associates who could work with you in this way)

Visit other projects, schools, or organisations to learn from their good practice.  Perhaps you met someone interesting at the conference or would like to know more about work presented in the seminars.  (Again you can talk to staff at CapeUK for guidance about how to follow up anything you’ve seen at the Conference)  

How to apply

Please submit a statement of intent (maximum 500 words) detailing how you would use the bursary. Statements of intent should be emailed to Madeleine Irwin (madeleine.irwin@capeuk.org) by 6:00pm on 30 October 2009.

Bursary Recipients announced:  20 November 2009

Bursary work undertaken:   30 November 2009 to 30 April 2010 

What do we ask for in return? 

In return for the bursary, recipients will need to:- 

-      Create some materials (could be a report, a short film, a podcast, annotated notes, images, photographs …) to share on the CapeUK website (by May 2010) 

-      Attend a meeting to discuss findings and learnings (May 2010)  

-     Contribute to a dissemination event (Summer / Autumn 2010)