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Graduates face a world of complexity which demands flexibility, adaptability, self-reliance and innovation, but while the development of creativity is embedded in the English 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.
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Developing Creativity in Higher Education 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 unrecognised 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. 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: • • • an analysis of the problem of creativity in higher education and rich perspectives on the meanings of creativity in different teaching and subject contexts; 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; practical advice on how to foster creativity at an individual and an institutional level. 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 creative potential. Norman Jackson is Director of the University of Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education (SCEPTrE) and Professor of Higher Education. Martin Oliver is a Senior Lecturer at the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, London. Malcolm Shaw is Professor of Educational Development at Leeds Metropolitan University. James Wisdom is a higher education consultant, Co-Chair of the Staff and Educational Development Association and a visiting Professor at Middlesex University. Developing Creativity in Higher Education An imaginative curriculum Edited by Norman Jackson, Martin Oliver, Malcolm Shaw and James Wisdom First published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2006 Norman Jackson, Martin Oliver, Malcolm Shaw and James Wisdom selection and editorial matter; individual chapters the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be repr