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Research and Policy
Ken Muir Report Sketchnote
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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
Creativity, Culture & Education
Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) is a UK-based charity, which works internationally to unlock the creativity of young people in and out of formal education...
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Research and Policy
Creativity across learning 3-18 curriculum impact report
This curriculum impact project report evaluates current practice in Scotland in the development of creativity skills in children and young people from age 3 to 18, across all curriculum areas...
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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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“An inherent link seems to exist between creativity and science and mathematics education...”
—Creative Little Scientists, EU Funded Research Project
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“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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Skills Investment Plan for Scotland’s Creative Industries sector
The influence and impact that the Creative Industries sector has on Scotland – both economically and culturally – is deep and varied...
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A Creative Approach to Improvement Planning
A Powerpoint presentation by Education Scotland...
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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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GTCS Professional Recognition Award - Creative Learning
GTC Scotland's Professional Recognition Award in Creative Learning recognises the enhanced, significant and sustained enquiry a teacher has undertaken and the development of their professional learning in this area...
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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
Creativity and Tackling Prejudice
Powerpoint Presentation by Stephen Bullock, Development Officer for Creativity with Education Scotland, delivered to the Education Scotland & Renfrewshire Council national event: Tackling Prejudiced based bullying & Promoting Equality and Diversity It argues that the creativity skills, especially open-mindedness, are central to tackling prejudice and prejudice based bullying and are a means of embedding this agenda across the curriculum and challenging prejudice at its root, in the habits of mind of the individual...
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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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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...
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Quotes
“The high-skilled minority (characterised by their creativity, analytical and problem solving capabilities and communication skills) will have strong bargaining power in the labour market, whilst the low-skilled will bear the brunt of the drive for flexibility and cost reduction...”
—The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 (UKCES)
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Teachers Who Promote Creativity See Educational Results
Creativity in the classroom goes hand in hand with exceptional student learning, according to a new Gallup study examining U...
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Research and Policy
Creating Safety
Creating Safety provides guidance on child protection for individuals and organisations involved in delivering artistic, cultural and creative projects for children and young people in Scotland...
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Research and Policy
This is the one skill your child needs for the jobs of the future
The World Economic Forum released its Human Capital Report with the subtitle “Preparing People for the Future of Work”...
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Research and Policy
How to Inspire Creativity in Your Kids
An Expert Reviewed WikiHow resource that offers three different approaches to developing creativity in your children and learners...