Developing Creativity in Higher Education

TRAMA

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. <BR>"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: <BR>- <BR>an analysis of the problem of creativity in higher education and rich perspectives on the meanings of creativity in different teaching and subject contexts<BR>- 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<BR>- practical advice on how to foster creativity at an individual and an institutional level <BR>"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.

NOTE EDITORE

Graduates face a world of complexity which demands flexibility, adaptability, self-reliance and innovation, but while the development of creativity is embedded in theEnglish National Curriculum and in workplace training, the higher education sector has yet to fully recognise its importance.This book highlights how pressures such as quality assurance, peer review systems, demands for greater efficiency and increased research output are effectively discouraging innovation and creativity in higher education. It makes a bold case for the integration of creativity in higher education, drawing together contributors and research from around the world and explores valuable lessons learnt from those working in schools and professional organisations. Offering a wealth of advice on how to foster creativity on an individual and an institutional level, this book encourages lecturers to engage with the ideas and practice involved in helping students to be creative in all areas of their study.

SOMMARIO

1 Helping creative people to be creative 2. Creativity in organisations 3. Creativity in schools' education 4. Creativity for a world of complexity The Conditions For Creativity In HE: Introduction 5. Creativity and curricula in higher education: academics' perspectives 6. Creativity: the students' perspectives7. Disciplinary perspectives on creativity 8. Creativity within graduate attributes profilesA Curriculum For Creativity: Introduction 9. Developing Student Creativity 10. Enhancing students' creativity through creative thinking techniques 11. Assessing students' creativity 12. Enhancing students' creativity through imaginative processes for learning : Developing staff to teach creatively 13. Making sense of creativity

AUTORE

Norman Jackson, Martin Oliver, James Wisdom, Malcolm Shaw

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415365321
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 0.85 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 7 tables and 12 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 256
• Pagine Romane: cclvi