This film is part of Accessible Pedagogies for Accelerate. Dr Penny Hay presents a creative provocation, exploring key principles of creative pedagogy and how the role of undergraduate students can be integrated into creative eco-systems.

New spaces of possibility are opening up in the light of the war, the pandemic and the ecological emergency. In our partnership work, our creative methodology, with everyone an artist, drives the ambition for artistic excellence. We have a shared purpose to offer an alternative, creative approach to learning and researching experimental sites for pedagogical innovation. We engage artists, researchers and educators in creative and reflective practice that places creativity, compassion and wellbeing at the heart of a future pedagogy – prioritising freedom, agency and imagination.

Biography

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Dr. Penny Hay is an artist, educator and researcher, Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning, Senior Lecturer in Arts Education, School of Education; Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries; Bath Spa University and Director of Research, House of Imagination. Signature projects include School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination. Penny’s doctoral research focused on children’s learning identity as artists. Penny is the strand leader for Creative Pedagogy in the Policy, Pedagogy and Practice Research Centre, Associate Director of TRACE at Bath Spa University and co-chair of the eARTh research group focusing on education, arts and the environment. She is co-investigator on an Erasmus+ project ‘Interstice’ in Europe researching the space between art, children and educators. Penny is also a visiting Lecturer at Plymouth College of Art, National Teaching Fellow and Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, with awards from Action for Children’s Arts and Creative Bath.