Reflective teaching in the creative arts

This paper explores the conceptualisation of reflective teaching on creative educational development programmes and the extent to which enabling a reflective disposition may be influenced by the forms, interpretations and underpinning values of reflective practices in the creative arts. The author reflects on her own role as a senior educational developer working in a creative arts university, identifying a mismatch between educational developer discourse or “edu-speak” and the more socially-situated, culturally-imbued dialogue on reflection that might more typically personify creative arts teaching practice. This gap in knowledge is now the subject of the author’s own educational doctorate, entitled, ‘How do creative arts lecturers in higher education talk about reflecting on their teaching?’ in which arts lecturers in higher education will be encouraged to talk about reflecting on their teaching using their own discursive repertoires. The aim of the research proposed is to better understand the contingently formed understandings and engagement with reflective teaching processes by creative arts lecturers.