Creativity in education

Currently considerable interest is being shown in creativity by the government and bodies such as QCA and Ofsted. A ‘creativity agenda’ has emerged with important implications for teaching and learning in schools. Drawing on research literature, as well as work completed by Secondary PGCE English and Drama trainees, this paper aims to provoke discussion about how creativity in education is defined and the impact of more explicit understandings of creativity in classrooms.     

创造力的培养与物理学科教育

本文从物理教育的特殊性出发,探索物理教育对学生创造力培养的作用和策略,以期为教育理论研究和实践提供依据。     

成人教育教学模式创新统论

教学模式是指较为稳定的教学活动结构框架和活动程序.科学、适宜的教学模武是教学活动顺利开展、教育质量有效提高的重要保证.30年来,我国成人教育不断深化改革,在成人正规教育、非正规教育、非正式教育中创造出了多种多样的教学模式,促进了教学质量的稳步提高和成人教育的科学发展,也极大地丰富了成人教育的教学理论和学习理论.     

素质教育中的创新教育

21世纪的竞争是知识的竞争,知识竞争的实质是创新能力的竞争,我国实施素质教育的目的就是要培养培养创新人才.本文从教育心理学的角度对这一问题作初步的探讨,并对教学中如何做好创新能力培养提出了自己的建议.     

Creativity and higher education: A review

Some recent literature is reviewed to argue that institutions of higher education have made little adjustments to either their admission practices or their curricula to help nurture varied talents among their students. Diversity seems to be lacking throughout the academic community from the undergraduate level to the professional circles. The need for renewed spirit of experimentation and of tolerance of pluralism is pointed out.     

基础英语教育中的创造力培养述评

本文对国内外相关创造力培养的理论进行了综述和评价。通过对国内外研究的比较和分析,总结出这些研究的共同点,即教师在教学中如何培养儿童的创造能力。在提倡素质教育,废除应试教育的中国,中小学英语教师应该如何在实际教学中培养学生的创造力是本文要探讨的重点问题。     

Creativity: a challenge for contemporary education

ABSTRACT

In this essay, I comment on the objective of cultivating creativity in general and in schools in particular. I start by tracing the historical origin of this objective, then discuss a select set of relevant issues, including what can be considered the best practices for achieving this. I conclude by contemplating the potential for globalisation of this objective, and the portability of general pedagogies and specific approaches to cultivating creativity between different educational systems.     

Creativity and inspiration for problem solving in engineering education

Problem solving is a critical skill for engineering students and essential to development of creativity and innovativeness. Essential to such learning is an ease of communication and allowing students to address the issues at hand via the terminology, attitudes, humor and empathy, which is inherent to their frame of mind as novices, without the attempt to have to be the expert. Deep learning of scientific fact can be facilitated by using non-conventional tools for teaching, learning and presentation such as drama, video, posters, model making and other similar means. It may be time to break free of the PowerPoint tradition to generate successful approaches for establishing student engagement and maintaining such engagement.     

Creativity and performativity: Counterpoints in British and Australian education

This article explores the complex interplay of power between performativity and creativity agendas—a mutual tension that resides in British and Australian education. Accountability constraints and conflicting policy debates are problematised against the wider imperatives of similar government agendas. This ‘counterpoint’ of freedom and control has significant implications for pedagogy and, through accommodating performativity, teacher agency and professionalism are under threat. The authors propose a ‘rebalancing’ where pedagogy transforms from a site of struggle for control, to one where a higher trust is placed in teacher professionalism. The idea of ‘rebalancing pedagogy’ offers a way for teachers to navigate and be supported through the opposing demands of performativity and creativity. It acknowledges the importance of teacher agency and where teaching is judged against the characteristics of a systemic approach that facilitates the building of creative learning communities capable of supporting any curricula or content‐focused programmes in and beyond schools.     

创造性培养应寓于学科教育之中

创造性的培养寓于学科教育之中,除了学生创造性地学和精选教学内容以外,还有教师创造性地教,即将创造性思维渗透在学科内容的教学中．作者提出了开放式的施教模式,主要包括向学科前沿开放,向教科书外开放,向课堂外开放,向学生开放,评价标准的多元化等。     

Creativity in advertising design education: an experimental study

Have you ever thought about why qualities whose definitions are elusive, such as those of a sunset or a half-opened rose, affect us so powerfully? According to de Saussure (Course in general linguistics, 1983), the making of meanings is closely related to the production and interpretation of signs. All types of design, including advertising design, are about meaning-making. This study examines the effectiveness of a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in enhancing student designers’ creative flexibility in advertising design. A semiotic approach is employed to examine hand-sketched print advertisements for a bakery promoting the metaphorical theme Bread is Life produced by participants in a series of PBL workshops (the experimental group) and a series of lecture-based workshops (the control group). The visual representations realised through these sketches in association with the metaphor were categorised into different signifiers by five experienced creative directors and are compared on an inter-group basis. The results of the semiotic analysis show the experimental group to have generated a wider variety of signifiers than the control group, thus reflecting the higher degree of creative flexibility that results from the use of a PBL approach. Theoretically, this empirical study addresses a number of conceptual issues in advertising design, creativity, problem solving, divergent thinking and semiotics. Practically, it contributes to an understanding of how a PBL approach can contribute to the enhancement of semiotic association skills amongst student designers in a professional communication context.