Creativity in Education: International Perspectives

 

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Creativity has become a buzzword across all disciplines in education and across all phases, from early years through to tertiary education. Although the meaning of creativity can change vastly depending on the global educational setting, it is impossible to ignore the applicability and relevance of creativity as educational tool, philosophical framework, and pedagogical approach.

Through case studies of creativity in varying settings and diverse contexts, this collection explores the ground-breaking work undertaken internationally to support, develop and future-proof learners with, and for, creativity. The chapters are centred around a practice-based enquiry or other forms of empirical research. This provides the scholarly basis upon which creativity is continuously reconceptualised and redefined in the educational and country-specific context of each study. Contributors from different countries then provide critical, reflective, and analytical responses to each chapter. Creativity in Education provides practical insights for application in a wide range of educational settings and contexts, such as the use of art exhibitions and object-work, as well as more philosophical approaches to teacher education, leadership for learning and creativity as a universal phenomenon.

For this book launch event, the editors are gathering contributors and discussants to explore the role creativity plays in educational settings across the world.

To celebrate the publication of the new edited volume the Society for Research into Higher Education hosted a webinar with a panel consisting of guest speaker Tom Doust, Associate Director of the Institute of Imagination, the editors Nicole Brown and Amanda Ince from UCL Institute of Education and Karen Ramlackhan from University of South Florida St. Petersburg, and the chapter contributors Sofia Eriksson Bergström, Roxana Balbontín‑Alvarado, and Carolyn Swanson.