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Karen Hosack Janes

Karen Hosack Janes

Karen Hosack Janes is a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and an education consultant, specialising in pedagogies that nurture creative development. She has worked at a senior level in the education and museums and galleries sectors, and now supports teachers and teacher training students in designing activities that maximize learners' creative agency. Formerly head of schools at the National Gallery, London, she has run education programmes and visited numerous schools across the UK, enabling her to see first-hand how creativity is taught and the challenges teachers encounter.