ERIC Number: EJ1477532
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
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Navigating Dilemmas: University Educators' Journeys in Creativity Teaching
Teaching in Higher Education, v30 n5 p1235-1255 2025
Creativity is widely recognised as a key competence in higher education for future graduates to address societal challenges through creative thinking and problem-solving. However, despite multiple definitions of creativity and pedagogies across disciplines, challenges remain in fully integrating creativity into teaching. Based on interviews with 18 educators, we uncovered various creativity teaching dilemmas related to identity, practice, and the broader educational system. These dilemmas constitute a 'dilemmatic space', requiring educators to continuously adapt their identities and teaching while confronting systemic challenges. Further, we found that educators navigated these dilemmas by leveraging knowledge, expanding expertise, adjusting scaffolding, reforming curriculum, and providing emotional support. We conceptualised an 'actor space' associated with the educators' utilisation of navigation strategies, emphasising the role of diverse actors in this process. The actor space complements dilemmatic space, highlighting diverse actors in supporting educators' transformative learning as they tackle disorienting dilemmas in creativity teaching.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Creativity, Teacher Attitudes, Expertise, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Curriculum Development, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australasia; Brazil; Colombia; Germany; Israel; New Zealand; Poland; South Korea; Spain; Switzerland; United States
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Author Affiliations: 1Water & Development Research Group, Department of Built Environment, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland; 2Design Factory, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland; 3Swinburne University of Technology Design Factory, Melbourne, Australia; 4Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University School of Engineering, Espoo, Finland