Parents' involvement in creative projects
Research Report
'Their learning becomes your journey’: parents respond to children’s work in creative partnerships
Kimberly Safford & Olivia O’Sullivan
A CLPE research report for Creative Partnerships
Creative Projects: Getting Parents Involved
Olivia O'Sullivan and Kimberly Safford
A pamphlet for schools, based on the research
with a foreword by Beverley Hughes MP, Minister of State for Children,
Young People and Families
About the research
Following three major research projects on creativity (Animating Literacy, Many Routes to Meaning and Assessing Creative Learning), CLPE has asked parents for their views on children’s learning in creative projects. CLPE interviewed parents and staff in primary and secondary schools, and some of the significant findings of ‘Their learning becomes your journey’ include:
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A creative curriculum has a positive impact on home-school communication. Children’s enthusiasm for creative projects leads them to talk at home about what they do in school, and parents develop new perspectives on their children's learning.
Parents feel that creative projects motivate children to be in school and support children as individual learners. Parents believe that creative projects have a significant, long-term impact on children’s confidence, skills, wider learning, overall
A creative curriculum offers low-risk invitations to parents to become involved in school. Children’s engagement also leads parents to reflect on their own school experiences and to take-up cultural and other learning opportunities for themselves as