Research call funds are now fully allocated. A full programme of research and evaluation activity is underway covering the period 07-09. Interim reports will be posted here as they are received from research teams.

For further information please contact david.parker@creative-partnerships.com

Creative Partnerships comprises a complex programme of creative learning opportunities intended to develop and mainstream creative teaching and learning, and result in a changes across the school, the curriculum and the wider community.

Creative Partnerships programmes are designed to challenge and develop learning practice by:

• exploring creative risk-taking and innovation
• exploring what education for the 21st century might be
• evidencing and disseminating methodologies for creative learning
• developing the capacity of the cultural and creative sectors to work effectively in schools

A full programme of research is underway at local and national level. A primary purpose of the research, evaluation and evidence programmes is to identify how Creative Partnerships addresses the aims, objectives and outcomes identified in the Policy Framework. These aims are addressed across three interconnected strands of activity:

• a national evaluation of the pilot phase of Creative Partnerships
• local research projects investigating research questions of interest to individual Creative Partnerships
• local evaluation of individual projects, using the Partnerships for Learning approach

Here are some examples of the projects. As any project is completed, details of the research results will be given on this page.

International research
Report publications from the IEN and University of Northumbria examining:

• how high-level linguistic forms are acquired and used habitually by young people in the learning environment of an extended drama rehearsal process
• investigation of the language of creativity in artists' workshops for young people, in the classroom, in creative environments, outside school
• researching planning and decision making language of young people engaged in a social entrepreneurial project

[Durham and Sunderland]

Research
Report from the University of Central England looking at the effectiveness of the Creative Partnerships programme in supporting creative pedagogy [Birmingham]

Conference and report examining models of creativity in schools that can lead to effective embedding and mainstreaming [Merseyside]

Reports from the University of East Anglia exploring and developing the creative use of ICT in the history classroom and exploring the creative use of ICT in secondary science education [Norfolk]

Action research
Learning about Learning: Preferred Learning Styles and Creativity Action research Programme - a series of reflections and tools by teachers and creative partners documenting work undertaken in ten London East schools as part of a two year action research programme.