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Research and Policy
A Culture Strategy for Scotland
A Culture Strategy for Scotland shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland...
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Research and Policy
Ken Muir Report Sketchnote
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Creative Partners
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Learning lies at the heart of everything we do...
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Creative Partners
Visible Fictions
Since 1991 we have been creating innovative and dynamic theatrical experiences and creative learning projects for young people of all ages...
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Creative Partners
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland (YTAS) is the national development organisation and umbrella body for Scotland’s youth theatre sector...
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Creative Partners
Starcatchers
Starcatchers is Scotland’s Arts and Early Years organisation...
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Research and Policy
Re-Imagining the Future keynote
The NCLN Annual Event in 2016 took place at the Hotel Colessio in Stirling and was entitled Re-Imagining the Future...
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Research and Policy
Creativity and Learning: what is the connection?
A thought piece by Paul Collard, Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education, that argues creative learning has a positive impact on learning and attainment because it inherently develops the executive functions of the brain...
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Research and Policy
Raising Attinment through Pupil Engagement - a report of an experiment
An action research project which took place in primary schools across Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire Councils, in partnership with the Creative Learning Networks and Hidden Giants...
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Quotes
“There is an educational rationale for creative capacity development as a means to raise overall achievement, and close stubborn, persistent achievement gaps...”
—RSA: Giving Schools the Power to Create - Developing creative capacities in learners and teachers
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Creative Partners
Lyceum Theatre
The Creative Learning department at The Lyceum is all about engaging the community in the life of the theatre; it is about inspiring, educating and entertaining people from all walks of life and all ages to engage with theatre and be creative For schools we offer everything from one-off workshops to interdisciplinary long-term projects and continuing professional development for teachers...
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Research and Policy
Paul Collard's slides from the Attaining Creative Solutions event
Paul Collard from Culture, Creativity and Education brought his international experience and unique interpretation of the PISA statistics to bear on the attainment and equality issue here in Scotland as part of the Attaining Creative Solutions event in Edinburgh (June 2015) as part of the National Creative Learning Network annual events and the Emporium of Dangerous Ideas...
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Research and Policy
Inequality kills innovation and entrepreneurship
"Our study of 21 OECD countries over more than a 100 years shows income inequality actually restricts people from earning more, educating themselves and becoming entrepreneurs...
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Creative Partners
Resilience Through Creativity from Comedy & Confidence SQA Training Centre
Resilience Through Creativity™ training the trainer program...
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Research and Policy
How to improve the school results: not extra maths but music, loads of it
A Bradford primary school wants the world to know its newfound SATs success is down to giving all children up to six hours of music a week...
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Creative Partners
The Necessary Space
The Necessary Space was created to continue the work that Simon Sharkey pioneered as one of the founding directors of National Theatre of Scotland...
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Creative Partners
Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art offering an unrivalled programme of exhibitions, commissions and special events...
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Creative Partners
Flummix
The Flummix STEM-Antics workshops and shows successfully unite the arts and STEM subjects to develop skills in creativity, computational thinking and confidence...
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Creative Partners
Eco Drama
Eco Drama are passionate about making quality theatre and creative learning experiences for children and young people which nurture a sense of curiosity, wonder and care for our natural world and remind us we are part of an amazing living planet...
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Creative Partners
Creative & Cultural Skills
Creative & Cultural Skills works to create fair and inclusive opportunities for young people within the creative and cultural sectors...