Approaches To Creativity: Guide For Teachers, A

Description: This book offers an accessible introduction and a comprehensive guide to the range of ideas on creativity in education, providing an overview of the major theories related to creativity together with implications for policy and practice. The popular topic of creativity has given rise to a large number of theoretical positions, sometimes contradictory or contested. This book clarifies and organises these approaches so that teachers understand where particular pedagogical and curricular practices originate and can develop them coherently.

Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Constructs of creativity Genealogy of creativity Creativity in a social context Creativity and the environment Creativity and culture Creativity and technology Creative curriculum planning Assessing creativity Collaborative creativity Creativity and the domains Talent, expert performance and creativity Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship The creative teacher Managing creativity Tools for creativity The creative learner Creativity and cognition Creativity as expression Developmental theories and creativity Author Index Subject Index

Author Biography: Orison Carlile is an independent Educational Consultant and Honorary Professor at the Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University in Russia. Anne Jordan is Professor Emeritus at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland and Honorary Professor at the Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University in Russia.