Artists and Arts-Based Method Use in Higher Education: A Living Inquiry of an Academic Programme in a Faculty of Education

We are told that we need new thinking in the current world crises of economics and global environmental concerns. We are also told that, in higher education, a new critically reflexive form of creative teaching and learning is required in order to address the task of reconciling the need for a stable, safe, ethical and empathetic world with the need for a productive, adaptive and creative workforce. In this chapter, we provide compelling evidence of transformative practices—pedagogies of possibility—developed from a funded initiative called Facultartem which featured an artist-in-residence who developed arts-based methods to enhance a Masters programme in a UK university. We critique the crucial role that arts-based methods have to play in understanding organisational learning in HE.