Developing creativity in higher education
Subtitle: an imaginative curriculum
By: [edited by] Norman Jackson ... [et al.].
Contributors: Jackson, Norman, 1950-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Creative thinking; Education, Higher
Description: Our ability to imagine and then invent new worlds for ourselves is one of our greatest assets and the origin of all human achievement, yet the importance of creativity in learning and achievement is largely unrecognized in a higher education world that places more value on critical and rational thinking. It is a vision of a higher education world in which students' creativity is valued alongside more traditional forms of academic achievement that provides the driving force for this book. Developing Creativity in Higher Education has grown out of the Imaginative Curriculum network-based collaborative learning project. It is the first book to systematically address the issue of creativity in higher education. It features: · an analysis of the problem of creativity in higher education and rich perspectives on the meanings of creativity in different teaching and subject contexts · illustrative examples of teaching and assessment strategies, augmented by web-based, curriculum guides and aids to encourage teachers to examine their own understandings of creativity in order to help students to develop their own creativity · practical advice on how to foster creativity at an individual and an institutional level Developing Creativity in Higher Education will appeal to teachers, educational developers, and institutional managers who want to enrich the higher education experiences of their students and enable them to develop more of their potential.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagining a different world / Norman Jackson; title: Public policy, innovation, and the need for creativity / Richard Smith-Bingham; title: Creativity in schools / Anna Craft; title: Interfering with the interference: an emergent perspective on creativity in higher education / Paul Tosey; title: Students' experiences of creativity in higher education / Martin Oliver ... [et al.]; title: Creativity and curricula in higher education: academics' perspectives / Margaret Edwards, Chris McGoldrick, and Martin Oliver; title: Facilitating creativity in higher education: a brief account of National Teaching Fellows' views / Marilyn Fryer; title: Developing subject perspectives on creativity in higher education / Norman Jackson and Malcolm Shaw; title: Views from the chalk face: lecturers' and students' perspectives on creativity in art and design / Ruth Dineen; title: Developing students' creativity in higher education: in search of an appropriate pedagogy / Norman Jackson and Christine Sinclair; title: Enhancing students' creativity through creative thinking techniques / Caroline Baillie; title: How should I assess creativity? / John Cowan; title: Evaluating creativity through consensual assessment / Tom Balchin; title: Developing higher education teachers to teach creatively / James Wisdom; title: Making sense of creativity in higher education / Norman Jackson.