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Martijn Boven – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2024
This paper seeks to initiate a theory of "imaginative dialogues" by articulating four dialogical principles that enable such a dialogue to occur. It is part of a larger project that takes the Socratic dialogue, a widely utilized conversation technique in philosophy education, as a starting point and aims to reinterpret it by shifting…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Verbal Communication, Creative Thinking, Imagination
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Federica Liberti – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2024
By using the feminist imaginary as a pedagogical tool for resistance and change, an experience of activism within the university context in Naples, Italy is explored. The article focuses on the potential transformative power of art as catalysis for deeper level emotional and spiritual learning transformation. The aim is trying to inspire critical…
Descriptors: Feminism, Imagination, Social Change, Art
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Randall Everett Allsup; Gustavo Hessmann Dalaqua – Philosophy of Music Education Review, 2024
This submission explores the concept of aesthetic justice pedagogy, and advocates on behalf of it. In contrast to aesthetic injustice, which denotes any harm done to a person's aesthetic capacities, aesthetic justice pedagogy aims at facilitating the development of students' imagination, perception, and feelings, wherein narrative and story-making…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Social Justice, Imagination
Sofia Bertolaja; Said Ettejjari; Natalie Foster – OECD Publishing, 2025
Recognising the importance of developing creativity in education, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) included an assessment of creative thinking for the first time in its 2022 cycle -- with the results summarised in the PISA 2022 Results (Volume III) report. While that report focused on comparing countries' performance on…
Descriptors: Imagination, Concept Formation, Story Telling, Design
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Piirto, Jane – Education Sciences, 2021
This article contains 15 "takeaways" about how to teach organic creativity, from actual teachers with several hundred total years of experience. Teachers of English, physics, Advanced Placement Calculus, science, theater, the visual arts, dance, school administration, school counseling, educational psychology professing, world languages,…
Descriptors: Creativity, 21st Century Skills, Teaching Methods, Intuition
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VerCetty, Quentin – Journal of Museum Education, 2022
In the twenty-first century, museum learning has shifted with the world's social climate, exploring new approaches to engage the public with collections. This text reframes the museum art educator as an activator and how they can utilize concepts within Afrofuturism to decolonize hegemonic white cultural institutions and Eurocentric epistemes.…
Descriptors: Museums, Art Education, Art Teachers, Postcolonialism
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Puccio, Gerard J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2017
While the scientific investigation into creativity is a recent phenomenon, creative thinking has always been a crucial feature of humanity. The ability to creatively solve problems enabled early humans to survive and laid the foundation for the creative imagination that has resulted in our modern society. While most humans no longer face physical…
Descriptors: Creativity, Imagination, Creative Thinking, Scientific Research
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Gannon, Susanne; Jacobs, Rachael; D'warte, Jacqueline; Naidoo, Loshini – English in Australia, 2021
Disruptions to learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic have been one of the most concerning consequences of school closures in Australia during 2020. Carefully planned curriculum sequences and learning progressions were flipped into online formats, with teachers having very little time to prepare and students being unused to learning away from each…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Online Courses
Kenneth Holstein; Erik Harpstead; Rebecca Gulotta; Jodi Forlizzi – Grantee Submission, 2020
As we design increasingly complex systems, we run up against fundamental limitations of human imagination. To support practice, it becomes essential to use authentic data and algorithms as design materials to augment designers' intuitions. Recent work has explored some dimensions of using data as a design material, suggesting the contours of a new…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Games, Computer Games
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Aljarrah, Ayman – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2016
This theoretical paper is driven by the question, "What does creativity look like in classroom settings?" It is motivated by my past experiences as a teacher: my stories and my students' stories as we struggled together within a restricted classroom environment to create enough space for our creativity to emerge and flourish. I suggest…
Descriptors: Creativity, Classroom Environment, Figurative Language, Barriers
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Cooper, Hilary – Education 3-13, 2018
The National Curriculum for History in England (DfE (Department for Education). [2013]. 'The National Curriculum for England, History Programmes of Study: Key Stages 1 and 2'. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_-_History.pdf, 1) states that the purpose of studying history is to inspire pupils' curiosity, to 'ask…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, History Instruction, Creativity
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Russ, Sandra W. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
This article reviews the theoretical and empirical literature in the area of pretend play as a predictor of adult creativity. There is strong evidence that processes expressed in pretend play are associated with measures of creativity, especially with divergent thinking. There is some evidence from longitudinal studies that this association is…
Descriptors: Creativity, Play, Imagination, Adults
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Robin Jocius – English Journal, 2016
This article explores the possibilities (and complexities) of multimodal meaning-making in the digital dimension, which allows students to compose with a variety of different modes, such as images, sound, music, and writing. This lets them think deeply about the ways in which meaning is constructed, conveyed, and eventually interpreted by an…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Story Telling, Multimedia Materials
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Forster, Jill – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2015
This article explores the significance of creativity in our lives. It underlines the point that creativity gives satisfaction in our day by day living and in breakthroughs that change our lives. In a multitude of ways we cannot live without it. Synthesising instances of innovation in fields as diverse as medical research, haute cuisine, fragrance…
Descriptors: Creativity, Satisfaction, Problem Solving, Creative Thinking
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Tsai, Kuan Chen – Journal of Education and Learning, 2012
What the ultimate goal for education is to help students develop their capabilities and in turn to maximize their potentials into practical uses in everyday life. In fact, teachers are critical resources at their disposal to facilitate maximum students learning experience and to release students' potentials in classrooms. It is believed that…
Descriptors: Play, Imagination, Creativity, Literature Reviews
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