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=Creative and Transformative Education for Doctoral Students?= > A Collaborative Exploration (CE) on the different understandings of the meaning and value of "Creative and Transformative Education."
 * //If you want to participate, read more and eventually you'll get to the link to the form for applying.//
 * //If you want to know what a CE requires of you//, review the expectations and mechanics. In brief, CEs are an extension of Problem- or Project-Based Learning (PBL) and related approaches to education in which participants address a scenario or case in which the problems are not well defined, shaping their own directions of inquiry and developing their skills as investigators and prospective teachers (in the broadest sense of the word).
 * //If you are wondering how to define a meaningful and useful line of inquiry//, let us present a scenario for the CE and hope this stimulates you to apply to participate. We will then let CE participants judge for themselves whether their inquiries are relevant.

Two public educational institutions are collaborating on a joint proposal for a doctoral program in what might come to be called "Creative and Transformative Education." As is the case for any proposed program, it will be necessary to convince authorities that there would be student demand for such a program and there would be jobs for the graduates. It hardly needs to be said that being convincing to authorities is more difficult for a program that sounds unconventional than it is for say, sociology or for computer science. So the core faculty in the two institutions are looking for help in their effort. To this end, the faculty have decided //not// to do the obvious, which would be to identify themselves and their location, detail the courses they have on the books, and ask the CE participants to contribute specifically targeted text and arguments. Instead, they want the CE participants to be free to a) expose a variety of possibly competing views of "Creative," "Transformative," and their combination; b) draw employment possibilities from their own location in the world; and c) do blue-sky thinking about what kind of mid-career or mid-life creative and transformative education that would attract their personal interest. The desired products of the CE inquiries are, simply, succinct statements (with supporting documentation or references) of what something that might be called Creative and Transformative Education could be for doctoral students and how it could further the careers of such students.  The core faculty of the two institutions will digest these statements and use them (giving appropriate acknowledgements) to inform discussions with the rest of the faculty about the emphasis to make in their proposal.  It may even be that this indirect approach to getting help will bear fruit in CE participants going on to develop allied educational initiatives elsewhere. To this end we will disseminate to the participants the proposal that eventually gets submitted to the authorities.
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If you want more background to appreciate why the idea of Creative and Transformative Education needs clarification before it is seen as a serious option for a doctoral program, consider the quotes and sources box below. But, if the broad topic is enough for you to be interested, skip ahead to the section on expectations and mechanics of the CE. include component="page" wikiName="cct" page="CE3q" editable="1" include component="page" wikiName="cct" page="CE3m" editable="1"