Recent years have seen a decline in craft and creative education in schools and a shift from practical to theoretical learning models in higher education. Young people are leaving school with no idea that craft-based careers are even possible, and graduates of craft-based degree courses are entering the workplace.
Mischief McScruff discovers that Grandparents Day at the School of Scallywags can be a little, err … Xtreme! Introducing Pirate Xtreme Wrestling, the school's most exciting new sport. When champion wrestler, Chomper O'Many, messes with Mischief's dear old gran, the saltwater crocodile bites off more than he can chew. Four explosive endings to ......
How to Create Pie Rats is an easy step-by-step guide to drawing the popular Pie Rats characters.
In this book you will learn how to draw the Pie Rat crew, including Captain Black Rat, Pencil Leg Pete, Fish Eye Fred, Hook Hand Horace and Smudge. You can also create ships, mer-mice, cannons, flags, submarines, crabs, sea horses and much ......
How to Create Cool Characters is a fantastic guide for children and adults on illustrating storybook characters.
Written by experienced author and illustrator Dr Cameron Stelzer, each section contains step-by-step examples, helpful hints and practical information on drawing and painting.
The product of over three decades of teaching design studios and creativity seminars primarily at the University of Washington, Cultivating Creativity offers firsthand, on-the-ground accounts of encouraging creative expression in the classroom. In this lively book, course instructors will find a wealth of creativity-awakening exercises.
How to Sketch Scallywags is a step-by-step guide to drawing your favourite characters from the Scallywags series. Written by experienced author and illustrator Dr Cameron Stelzer, this book contains simple diagrams and colour examples, and is suitable for all levels of ability. Discover how to draw Benny Banana Peel, Mischief McScruff, Flick ......
Through stories about the professional rapper who founded the first hip-hop school and the aspiring artists currently enrolled there, Hip Hop Genius delivers a vision for how hip-hop's genius can lead to a fundamental remix of the way we think of teaching, school design, and leadership.
This volume explores music education locally and globally, and critically investigates where music education has come from, where it is, and where it may be going in the future, as well as what this means to us in the twenty-first century.