Title: Building first-year university scriptwriting student creative risk taking capacity
Abstract: In this study, the author investigates the key pedagogic challenge of encouraging creative risk- taking among first-year university scriptwriting students as part of a teaching and learning research cohort across various disciplines of the Creative Industries. To date, there have been limited studies investigating creative risk-taking as perceived and experienced by teachers and commencing students across different disciplines in a tertiary environment. Employing an action research methodology, we found that students perceive creative risks as happening across multiple aspects of their experience from the challenges of undertaking the unit or course in the first place to presenting what is perceived to be an unrefined idea to a large audience. By comparing and synthesising common themes regarding students’ perceptions of and responses to creative risk-taking, we have identified three key opportunity areas in which new teaching and learning strategies for scriptwriting can be implemented to better encourage creative risk-taking among students: i) overcoming challenges of voicing ideas in a collaborative group context; ii) building resilience and a sense of self-efficacy to remain agile and flexible to spontaneous or unexpected changes, and; iii) balancing creativity capacity building with technical competency to address practical concerns around realising and communicating creative concepts with minimum limitations of technologies and resources.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-08-31
Language: en
Type: article
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