Whilst knowledge in each separate subject is essential, it is cross disciplinary applications of that knowledge that make the most sense for most learners. This book provides practicing and training teachers the resources for teaching creativity and creatively through a variety of approaches. Thematic and project-based learning in the primary school need to be used not as an alternative to subject-based teaching but to run alongside as the most effective means of putting subject learning into action. This book uses autobiographical work and case studies to explore aspects of cross-curricular and creative teaching and includes philosophical and research-based discussion on indivdual themes.

Jonathan Barnes is Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

1. Connecting autobiography and creativity 2. A Positive pedagogy and a connecting curriculum 3. A History of Cross-curricularity 4. The cross curriculum in the 20th and 21st centuries 5. Choosing Cross-curricular themes 6. Mind-full approaches: Living and learning in the present 7. Planning for and creating creativity 8. Child and teacher-led learning: Opportunistic approaches 9. Making meaning: Assessing creative and integrated learning 10. Teachers and Children researching creative connections Postscript: A connected, creative and positive life in education