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Research and Policy
A Culture Strategy for Scotland
A Culture Strategy for Scotland shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland...
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Research and Policy
Ken Muir Report Sketchnote
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Research and Policy
Eric Booth Website
As "one of the 25 most important people in American arts education" Eric Booth has influenced our own thinking about creativity across teaching and learning here in Scotland...
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Research and Policy
A Creative Approach to Improvement Planning
A Powerpoint presentation by Education Scotland...
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Quotes
“I believe Scotland stands on the threshold of becoming a world leader in creativity, if, and only if, the education sector embraces the challenge of creativity across the curriculum to realize the Curriculum for Excellence...”
—Eric Booth, international creative learning consultant and author of The Everyday Work of Art
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Research and Policy
Coffitivity
A team of researchers, led by Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tested the effects of varying levels of noise on participants’ creative thinking skills, proving that moderately loud background noise boosts creative thinking...
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Research and Policy
The Creativity Post
The Creativity Post is a non-profit committed to sharing the very best content on creativity, in all of its forms: from scientific discovery to philosophical debate, from entrepreneurial ventures to educational reform...
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Research and Policy
Creative Thinkering
A psychology based blog resurrecting your natural creativity through inspiring techniques and practical examples...
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Research and Policy
99 Percent
99% is a think tank that focuses on what happens after inspiration - researching the forces that truly push ideas forward...
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Research and Policy
Learning: creative approaches that raise standards
An OFSTED report on how 44 schools used creative approaches to learning...
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Research and Policy
Skills in a Nutshell
The National Parent Forum of Scotland Summary of Skills, published as part of their Curriculum for Excellence in a Nutshell series, lays out the basics behind skills across the curriculum in two sides of A4...
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Research and Policy
The TIME Creativity Poll
In partnership with the Motion Picture Association of America and Microsoft, TIME polled Americans about the role of creativity in the workplace, in schools and in government...
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Quotes
“Good teachers should be reflective, with critical and creative thinking skills...”
—Teaching Scotland's Future
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Quotes
“I want us all to think about new and creative ways to … encourage young people to create and build and invent — to be makers of things, not just consumers of things...”
—Barack Obama, U.S. President
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Research and Policy
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School - direct instruction versus exploration and play
MIT and UC-Berkeley research into learning poses the following questions and provide scientific support for the idea that direct instruction can limit young children's learning...
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Research and Policy
Engage for Education - Creativity
Creativity related posts from the Engage for Education...
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Research and Policy
Re-Imagining the Future keynote
The NCLN Annual Event in 2016 took place at the Hotel Colessio in Stirling and was entitled Re-Imagining the Future...
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Research and Policy
The Periodic Table of 21st Century Play
An infographic that sets out the research by Laura Richardson, who has spoken on the subject at MIT, in a clear and inspiring way...
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Quotes
“Infants are extreme explorers; they possess qualities that are often lost by adulthood: curiosity, novelty seeking, always learning (and adapting) without much hesitation, and perhaps most importantly, not being afraid of failing...”
—Rachel Wu - Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, New York
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Research and Policy
RSA: Giving Schools the Power to Create - Developing creative capacities in learners and teachers
A summary paper on how schools can best develop pupils’ creative capacities by the RSA...