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Since Ken Robinson argued that ‘schools kill creativity’, there is an ongoing debate about the role of education in the development of children’s creative capabilities. In this talk I will pose a different view: not of the school as an ‘outside force’ impacting (for better or worse) on creativity, but of children’s creativity emerging in everyday interactions between the child, their teacher, their peers and the physical and cultural environment the school represents. I will discuss what our research, that zooms in on these everyday interactions, tells us about creative development, and what the implications are for teachers’ professional development.
The University of Georgia
The Mary Frances Early College of Education
copyright © 2024
Since Ken Robinson argued that ‘schools kill creativity’, there is an ongoing debate about the role of education in the development of children’s creative capabilities. In this talk I will pose a different view: not of the school as an ‘outside force’ impacting (for better or worse) on creativity, but of children’s creativity emerging in everyday interactions between the child, their teacher, their peers and the physical and cultural environment the school represents. I will discuss what our research, that zooms in on these everyday interactions, tells us about creative development, and what the implications are for teachers’ professional development.
The University of Georgia
The Mary Frances Early College of Education
copyright © 2024
