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Exploring Creative Social Intelligence PRESENTERS: Inez S. Bush + Asma Kazmi The Imaginative Reinvention of Education Grand Arts in Kansas City, MO February 25 and 26, 2011
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Exploring Creative Social Intelligence
PRESENTERS:
Inez S. Bush + Asma Kazmi
The Imaginative Reinvention of Education
Grand Arts in Kansas City, MO February 25 and 26, 2011
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
– Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 Physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics
For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand,
while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
– Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
Physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics
“It’s your imagination…everyone’s got one,
you’ve just got to find it.”
– 10 year old student, 2003
A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified Creativity as the No. 1
leadership competency of the future.
The Creativity Crisis, Newsweek, July 10, 2010
Q:Are we consistently nurturing and developing creativity through our
current educational practices?
The three key motivators for humans are autonomy, mastery and purpose.
– Daniel H. Pink
autonomy: compliant vs. engaged
Q:While we strive for students to
be engaged, how often does the concept of teacher and administrator
engagement get addressed?
TED.com
Q:What if schools carved out time for
“non-commissioned” work, for autonomy?
mastery: Have you ever experienced being so focused and challenged that
you lost track of time?
Flow is the mental state in which a person in an activity is fully immersed
in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in
the process of the activity.
– Conceived by Mihály Csíkszentmiháyi, Professor of Psychology and Management and founding
Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research
flow
Q:How often do we provide students
the opportunity to access flow?
How often do we provide teachers & principals with that same opportunity?
The element is the place where the things you love to do and the things
you are good at come together.
– Sir Ken Robinson
Q:What happens to someone
who never has the opportunity to discover their element?
educe: to draw forth from within
Q:Is there more value in asking
questions or learning answers?
What if the educational system’s focus was on the process of inquiry
and collaborative discovery?
Reggio Emilia
purpose: how vs. why
Grace Living Center
shared purpose
knowledge-as-participation dialogue vs.
knowledge-as-substance
Debating Through the Arts: a creative exchange for social change
debate • caucus • collaborate • create • present
Debating Through the Arts: a creative exchange for social change
