education. Annette Rawstrone assesses its capacity to foster a love of
learning.
Many of us have gone through an education system focused on results and outcomes, but this way of learning is being challenged in Scotland where active learning and creativity are at the heart of the Curriculum for Excellence.
Instead of using a goal-orientated approach, early years practitioners are enabling children to have freedom to explore their creativity in order to build a love of learning. Heather Armstrong, manager of the Creative Skills Programme at Starcatchers, which runs creative training with practitioners and students across Scotland, says that we need to trust that by allowing children to play, explore and use their bodies and voices, they will learn.
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