Creative Teaching and Learning in Europe: Promoting a New Paradigm

Autor/in	Davies, Trevor
Titel	Creative Teaching and Learning in Europe: Promoting a New Paradigm
Quelle	In: Curriculum Journal, 17 (2006) 1, S.37-57 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0958-5176
DOI	10.1080/09585170600682574
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Creative Teaching; Learning; Models; Creativity; Educational Experience; Educational Innovation; Educational Change + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Creative thinking; Teaching; Kreatives Denken; Unterricht; Lernen; Analogiemodell; Kreativität; Bildungserfahrung; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Bildungsreform
Abstract	The tides of globalization and the unsteady surges and distortions in the evolution of the European Union are causing identities and cultures to be in a state of flux. Education is used by politicians as a major lever for political and social change through micro-management, but it is a crude tool. There can, however, be opportunities within educational experience for individual learners to gain strong, reflexive, multiple identities and multiple citizenship through the engagement of their creative energies. It has been argued that the twenty-first century needs a new kind of creativity characterized by unselfishness, caring and compassion--still involving monetary wealth, but resulting in a healthy planet and healthy people. Creativity and its economically derived relation, innovation, have become "buzz words" of our times. They are often misconstrued, misunderstood and plainly misused within educational conversations. The small-scale pan-European research study upon which this article is founded discovered that more emphasis needs to be placed on creative leadership, empowering teachers and learners, reducing pupils' fear of school, balancing teaching approaches, and ensuring that the curriculum and assessment are responsive to the needs of individual learners. These factors are key to building strong educational provision that harnesses the creative potential of learners, teachers and other stakeholders, values what it is to be human and creates a foundation upon which to build strong, morally based, consistent, participative democracies. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10