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The search for understanding creativity and its expressions and processes is not new, not even in education. Since before John Dewey, but probably not as well as he did, educators have been trying to find better ways of bringing not only creative doing but creative thinking into the work of education. Its mercurial nature and cyclical appearance/disappearance have come to a crisis point in the last few years with creative industries redefining creativity in education and the workplace, and our need for it. In an ever-accelerating capitalism that demands innovation, adaptation, and flexibility, in our global economic shift from production industries to knowledge circulation and curation, creativity was bound to shift from being a pursuit to a way of thinking.

… I think all kids are creative, and I think unless I approach them with a respect for their epistemic experiences, and a respect for their creativity, then I’ll fail. I used to clutch to curriculum. It took me a while to free myself, creatively, as a teacher, and be more deliberate about my teaching and ask myself, what am I trying to accomplish? What kind of kids am I trying to support? I don’t want kids that can fill out multiple choice questionnaires. I’m more interested in allowing them to explore their own thought processes and feel supported.(Toronto public school teacher)

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Harris, A. (2016). Research. In: Creativity and Education. Creativity, Education and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57224-0_1

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