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NEWS


Plymouth College of Art launches full-time MA Creative Education


New for 2022, Plymouth College of Art, an independent university-sector art school, has launched a full-time (12 month) MA in Creative Education, to explore the contemporary role of creativity and making in education, putting emphasis on the ways people understand and interact with the world: cognitively, emotionally, aesthetically and somatically. Also available as a part-time (24 month) route and appropriate for a wide


range of subject specialists, MA Creative Education is suited to teachers at all levels from primary to higher education, managers and support workers in formal education, current and aspiring lecturers in higher education, as well as creative and community practitioners. Dr Natalia Eernstman, MA Creative Education Subject Lead at Plymouth


College of Art, said: “Studying education at an art college means that we use the arts as a lens through which to re-imagine education. It extends learning from something that mostly takes place in formal education, to a creative and generative process that happens throughout our entire lives, in communities, libraries, museums, nature, workplaces, social and health care, and the third age.”


The MA will provide students with the critical skills, resources and creative


space to question existing educational arrangements, to seek out alternative approaches, apply pedagogies and explore their own practice as an artist, designer and educator. Dr Stephen Felmingham, Academic Dean at Plymouth College of Art, said:


“We encourage diversity in thinking and making, fully acknowledging the potential in material exploration, collaborative working and cross-fertilisation of ideas. Critical inquiry and practice-based exploration are central to all of our postgraduate programmes, helping students to make dynamic and challenging work that resonates and reflects their key concerns in light of current national and international dialogues.”


uhttps://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/ma-creative- education


Sailing charity’s appeal offers a lifeline to youngsters struggling with mental health


With a


particular focus on working with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, TSYT has been providing young people aged 12- 25, with transformational experiences at sea for 65 years. In a typical year


the charity takes 1,000 young people to sea and currently operates four 72ft Challenger yacht — famous for having raced twice round the world as part of the Global Challenge races, and a 55ft ketch. Sue Geary, a longstanding Skipper with the charity, said: “Our


Tall Ships Youth Trust (TSYT) — the UK’s largest youth development sail training charity has launched its Lifeline Appeal to help raise vital funds to tackle dramatic increases in mental health referrals among young people. Recent NHS research found one in six children aged five to 16 were


identified as having a probable mental health problem in July 2021 — equivalent to five pupils in every classroom and a huge increase from one in nine in 2017. It also showed young people with a probable mental disorder were


more likely to report feeling often or always lonely. Nearly half of 17–19- year-olds with a diagnosed mental disorder had self-harmed or attempted suicide at some point, rising to 52.7% for young women.


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residential voyages provide a unique outdoor learning environment where young people are supported by our professionally trained crew to feel safe and have open conversations around mental health. “Sail training provides the ideal space for promoting positive mental


health and recovery for young people. The activities that form the core routines of any sailing voyage exactly match the NHS’ Five Steps to Mental Wellbeing — working physically hard on the water, helping each other and developing positive relationships while learning new skills, having opportunities to rest, reflect and be mindful.” To find out more and to donate to the Lifeline Appeal visit: uhttps://www.tallships.org/appeal/lifeline-appeal/


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