TY - JOUR AU - Macintyre Latta, Margaret AU - Hanson, Kelly AU - Ragoonaden, Karen AU - Briggs, Wendy AU - Middleton, Tamalee PY - 2017/10/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Accessing the Curricular Play of Critical and Creative Thinking JF - Canadian Journal of Education/Revue canadienne de l'éducation JA - CJE/RCÉ VL - 40 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/2509 SP - 191-218 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">A three-year collaborative research project in a K–6 elementary school is underway. The collaboration entails participating educators and their students exploring curricular enactment that embraces critical and creative thinking within its conduct. This article reveals </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">whole-school efforts over Year One to build educators’ and students’ confidence to do so, sustaining such curricular practices. Chronicled as a case study, narrative inquiry fittingly unfolds the particularities encountered within the specifics of the case during Year One. Educators’ belief in the worthiness of curricular play, as well as concretely negotiating critical and creative thinking with their students, arises as a necessary issue to address in order to invest in the research intents over three years. The integral role of partici</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">pants’ commitments to professional growth through curricular play and experimentation, actively seeking resources, entering wholly into curricular-making efforts, conversing sincerely with colleagues through inquiry conversations, and seeking organizational structures that support and strengthen curricular-making efforts, are found to be key to </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT';">fostering the pedagogically oriented context needed to grow and sustain project intents. </span></p></div></div></div> ER -