About this book
Introduction
Creative Contradictions in Education is a provocative collection of essays by international experts who tackle difficult questions about creativity in education from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine and provide fresh insights into the tensions and contradictions that researchers and educators face when attempting to understand and apply creativity in educational contexts. Creativity in education is surrounded by many contradictions. Teachers generally value creativity, but question the role it can and should play in their classroom. Many educators find themselves feeling caught between the push to promote students’ creative thinking skills and the pull to meet external curricular mandates, increased performance monitoring, and various other curricular constraints. This book brings together leading experts who provide fresh, cross-disciplinary insights into how creative contradictions in education might be addressed. Contributors will draw from existing empirical and theoretical work, but push beyond “what currently is” and comment on future possibilities. This includes challenging the orthodoxy of traditional conceptions of creativity in education or making a case for maintaining particular orthodoxies.
Keywords
beliefs and creativity benefits vs risks of creativity classroom creativity creative teaching and learning creative thinking skills creativity in education creativity research cross-disciplinary creativity curricular contraints defining creativity future directions of creative teaching and learning innovation in education paradoxes in creativity education pedagogical approaches in creativity
Editors and affiliations
- Ronald A. Beghetto
- Bharath Sriraman
- 1.Department of Educational PsychologyUniversity of ConnecticutStorrs, CTUSA
- 2.Department of Mathematical SciencesThe University of MontanaMissoula, MTUSA
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