Creativity and whole school change: An investigation of English headteacher practices |
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| Authors: | Pat Thomson Ethel Sanders |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Education, The University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham, NG2 5BU, UK |
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| Abstract: | Schools in England have been required to adopt and adapt an ongoing series of policy initiatives: some however are offered
on an ‘opt-in’ basis. This paper examines one such ‘offer,’ that of Creative Partnerships, a programme which provides schools
in designated deprived areas the opportunity to work with creative practitioners in order to change both classroom practice
and whole schools. We report here on the snapshot phase of a national study, using a corpus of multi-method qualitative data
from 40 schools. We suggest that headteachers saw different opportunities in the CP offer but what actually happened in the
school related to three interwoven strands: the situatedness of the school, the headteacher’s stance towards change, and the
architecture of change management. Our analysis, which highlights the ways in which many of the schools were unable to ‘spread
and embed’ the pedagogical changes supported through CP, suggests that the majority of heads could benefit from involvement
in explicit discussion about ‘unofficial’—and more democratic—approaches to leading and managing change. |
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