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Fostering capacities by encouraging creativity is a critical role undertaken by educators in a diverse range of learning contexts. Creativity is seen to be an essential skill for twenty-first-century living and enhances the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing world. Documentation of creative learning provides important insights into the potential of students, the development of their skills and expertise, and how they draw upon their respective environments to make sense of their world. This chapter considers three data sets, related to senior secondary art students and their teachers, children learning through play in natural environments and field notes and interviews with seasoned yoga teachers. It explores how creativity is manifested, and how creative capacities are developed, in these diverse learning contexts.
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© 2014 Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley, Catherine H. Arden, Margaret Baguley
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Danaher, P.A. et al. (2014). Creative Capacity-Building. In: Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137374578_3
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