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Creativity: Teaching the Teachers
Sydney Ideas, Seymour Centre and Vivid ideas 3rd of June 2014
* Stereotypes about creativity are false: some are NOT “born with it”, there is no “creative genius”. We all have the capacity for creativity
Robin Ewing
Creativity is a decision
Miranda Jefferson
* Creativity produces a “flow” * Novel, high ability, high challenge tasks = novel, high quality product -‐ discover and connect to something new -‐ defy the status quo * Being a scientist, discoverer, communicator, builder
Miranda Jefferson
* Creativity Pedagogy * The 4Cs Foresee the Future
Miranda Jefferson
Collaboration
Communication Creativity
Critical Thinking
Julie Dunn
* Making children feel = forces teacher to feel * Imagination & emotion work in unison * Feeling + thought = imagination à creativity
Julie Dunn
Imagination Paralysis
Why? The school system
Separation of cognition & emotion
Rules, restrictions & constraints
How do we fix it?
Make time for
playfulness
Time without adult constraints Engage with
literature, words
Less screen time
Imagine self as creative teacher
Julie Dunn
We are passive consumers of imaginative products, but we don’t do anything with it
* We are this * We should strive for more
* All creativity involves risk * If you DON’T risk are you… Boring? Conservative? Not adaptable? Successful? Responsible? * Creativity is high stakes
Kelly Freebdoy
* Creativity is deliberate, a skill which needs to be taught and learned * There is a difference between a new idea and a GOOD new idea * Skill is an emotional liberator = not teaching the skills of creativity is shallow
Kelly Freebody
Creativity IS discipline specific. The curriculum needs to specifically &
explicitly articulate what creative risk looks like in each
disciplinary area
Kelly Freebody
Disembodied learning
“get rid of every desk and burn every photocopier”
“ I never knew a child who grew taller by measuring them more often”
When a single crab is put into a lidless bucket, they surely can and will escape. However, when more than one share a bucket, none can get out. If one crab elevates themself above all, the others will grab this crab and drag them back down to share the mutual fate of the rest of the group.
Crab Bucket Theory