ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces some of the chief participants upon whose practice the analysis of creative teaching is largely based. Grace was deputy head of a large inner-city 600-pupil school with about 20 years' experience of teaching. She taught mainly infants in her early years but had taught juniors for the previous five years. Theresa had also taught for more than 20 years, mostly in secondary schools. She transferred to primary after completing an MA in technology and now worked as deputy head in an expanding one-form inner city school with a varied class and ethnic population. Creative teachers are not all alike, nor are they always being creative. Subjectivities and identities are constructed in multilayered and contradictory ways. The teachers differed in degrees of personal confidence, though all were well respected by their colleagues. Though both Theresa and Grace favoured a more teacher-centred approach, they differed in terms of private confidence.
