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- Title
Review of Radio Studies teaching: Touching the imagination through sound: using visualization to develop undergraduate creativity.
- Authors
McClellan, Tim
- Abstract
This article outlines the use of visualization as a tool to develop creativity among students of radio production in three undergraduate courses at Southampton Institute in Hampshire, England. There is a substantial body of work already published on using these techniques in schools such as that edited by Erricker and Erricker (2001) in which it is shown that, among other things, visualization can heighten perception, improve clarity of thought, memory and attention. Mann (2001), in particular, argues that using meditation techniques in schools leads to a positive shift in the quality of engagement and the learning process. Fontana and Slack (2002), working with 9-to 12-year-olds, see visualization as a major aid in creative writing. These are the creative and personal development skills which, essentially, are being nurtured in a select band of British primary schools but which are then largely lost in the secondary-school process and by the time the student reaches higher education, are virtually absent within the mainstream curriculum. At this stage in our undergraduate teaching, the visualizations are experimental. The participation or experience of the student is not a basis for summative assessment but is rather indirectly assessed, through the development of and incorporation into the creative side of coursework both in this unit and,as a transferable skill, in other units as well. The current formal assessment in our radio and audio units is through a sonic narrative, a story told through sounds with limited speech. Student feedback suggests that experiencing visualization plays a significant role in seeing how sound fits together and tells a story. It is envisaged that this pilot will be refined within the radio units and the positive creative and personal development aspects,in time,will be incorporated into the course as a whole and reviewed for the broader institutional student support framework.
- Subjects
CURRICULUM; RADIO production &; direction; RADIO broadcasting education; VISUALIZATION; INSTRUCTIONAL systems; VISUAL perception
- Publication
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 2004, Vol 2, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
1476-4504
- Publication type
Article