Instilling creativity in children is about more than doing arts and crafts, as Madeley Nursery School educator Victoria Waring (pictured)recently discovered during a year-long course on Creativity and the Arts in Early Childhood. Telford-based Ms Waring began the distance-learning course, one module of a three-year MA in Education (Early Years) at the Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC), in September 2018.
The Birmingham City University-accredited course involved five face-to-face days at CREC, while students completed the rest through self-study. Ms Waring had to produce two pieces of written work: a 3,000-word essay on creativity and arts theory, and a 6,000-word case study – hers on storytelling.
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