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The 'problem' with creativity in higher education is that it is not chronic, in the sense that the vast majority of teachers believe there is an issue to be addressed. The problem is not that creativity is absent but that it is omnipresent. That it is taken for granted and subsumed within analytic ways of thinking that dominate the academic intellectual territory. The problem is more a sense of dissatisfaction with a higher education world that seems, at best, to take creativity for granted, rather than a world that celebrates the contribution that creativity makes to personal achievement and wellbeing. For these reasons the problem is best viewed as an opportunity to do more to encourage and support learners' creative development and improve on the current situation.

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Developing Creativity in Higher Education:  
An imaginative curriculum

Our  ability  to  imagine  and  then  invent  new  worlds  for  ourselves  is one  of our greatest assests  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 the vision of higher-education world in which the creativity of learners  is valued equally alongside more traditional forms of academic  achievement, that provides the driving force for this book.

Developing Creativity in Higher  Education grew
  out  of the  Imaginative Curriculum Network collaborative learning  project facilitated by Norman Jackson, the principal author.  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 disciplinary contexts. It provides illustrative   examples  of  teaching  and  assessment strategies to encourage teachers to examine  their own  understandings of creativity  in order  to  help  students to  develop  their own creativity. And it offers practical  advice on how to foster creativity  at an individual, subject and institutional level.

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MAY 2014
Creativity in Development
A higher education perspective

The most important educational challenge facing all universities, is fundamentally a developmental challenge focused on the question of how we prepare learners for the challenges they will face in their future lives. This contribution of this book towards understanding this challenge is to examine the role of creativity in developmental processes. This is a matter of concern to everyone involved in the ongoing development of themselves and the development of educational practices, policies, resources and infrastructures that impact on students' learning, it's assessment and their curricular experiences.  The multiple perspectives offered on creativity in development were gained through a mix of surveys and interview-based studies. The insights gained facilitate the construction of a more comprehensive picture of this phenomenon across the field of higher education practice .

CHAPTER 1  The Developmental Challenge
Norman Jackson

CHAPTER 2 Educational Developer Perspectives on the Meanings of Creativity
Norman Jackson

CHAPTER 3 Educational Developer Perspectives on Creativity 
Jenny Willis & Norman Jackson

CHAPTER 4 Creative Innovators : Who are they? 
Sarah Campbell & Norman Jackson

CHAPTER 5
Enabling Creativity to Flourish in Universities
Norman Jackson

CHAPTER 6
An Ecology for Learning and Development
Norman Jackson




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Further unpublished work on creativity in higher education can be found at
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