“Terror versus soul” – Dr Peter Raymond

If we can forefront that strong sense of creative identity and agency rather than putting these performative measures at the forefront, then we can practice creativity as a genuine virtue rather than one side in a struggle.

– Dr Peter Raymond (144)

This paper argues for the ‘virtue’ of creativity, within a virtue ethic that sees creativity as inherently valuable and worthwhile and certainly not something to be side-lined in schools or in ITE.

I argue that the struggle for creativity in teacher education can be framed, without hyperbole, as a struggle between the ‘the teachers’ soul’ on the one hand and the ‘terrors of performativity’ on the other.

– Dr Peter Raymond (131)

York St John students and staff can access “Terror versus soul” here.