This book is intended for educators and leaders in education who want to be serious about developing creative competencies and confidence. - This has been the most important and useful learning experience in my 16 years of education. - Within a week my brain was totally reconfigured. - I now dare to approach any problem creatively. - I can now produce as many ideas as I like, literally. - I learned to apply and produce far more knowledge, and in ways that are more meaningful.
How to teach creativity in schools, youth education, vocational education, higher education as well as in professional education? There are lots of books about creativity in education. However, this may be the first to offer a research based, yet completely hands-on, guide for developing a systematic and holistic advancement of creative competencies and confidence. With this book you can:
- Design creativity as a course on its own. - Integrate creativity teaching into existing subjects. - Prepare assignments and activities that foster creativity. - Practise individual and team creative process work. - Develop creative learning environments. - Perform holistic evaluations of creativity. - Advance creativity so that it becomes second nature.
Creativity may be one of the most powerful and influential skills in the history of mankind. However, so far creativity has been primarily a skill possessed by great thinkers who push forward the human race. Do you also believe that creativity should be a skill for everyone to master, so that they can help innovate everyday life, organisations, industries, domains and societies? In the near future, creativity will be one of the top sought after skills in workplaces, by entrepreneurs and in general life, as robots and artificial intelligence are increasingly being introduced to take over human tasks. However, the current teaching of creative process methods is far too weak. Adding some creative techniques is not enough either. We need to start teaching creativity in a more holistic way. In a way that builds both creative competence and confidence. Creativity needs to become second nature.
This book will help you kickstart creativity teaching in an engaging, serious, systematic and holistic way. It provides a comprehensive hands-on practical introduction on how to teach creativity in all kinds of education, in all kinds of subjects and at all levels of education. It goes way beyond the traditional simple methods and techniques for designing and facilitating creative processes and creative workshops. This includes lots of creativity exercises that you can use directly in your teaching and that can be easily translated to fit your subject and project themes. The book introduces:
- A competency hierarchy model with 20 fundamental creative skills, detailing how to practice each skill. The model includes cognitive stimulation, idea expression, perceptual flexibility, imagination, persuasion, subconscious thinking and more. - A creative phase model with 7 universal creative process steps, detailing how to integrate each phase into general study activities and project work. The model includes focus, internal exploration, co-creation, compliance gaining and more. - A holistic creativity evaluation model with 6 important approaches for evaluating creativity, detailing how to perform each evaluation. The model includes how to evaluate creative self-perception, creative production, personal creative methods and more. - A systematic approach for developing a creative learning environment, detailing key pedagogical elements like time and duration of creative activities, the role of individuals and teams in teaching creativity, the difference between domain-specific and domain-general cases, and more.
