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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
5 Creativity Myths You Probably Believe
Misconceptions cloak creativity in mystique and they foster elitism—the idea that the potential for innovation and imagination is a rare gift enjoyed by only a select few creative types...
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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
How to Use Distraction to Your Advantage
Online article highlighting that psychologists say that people who’ve had creative success often have “leaky attention,” meaning that when they are concentrating on one thing, other irrelevant information can still seep into their consciousness (information that’s irrelevant to their current task, but potentially very useful longer term)...
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Research and Policy
Artists and teachers resource
This ArtWorks Scotland resource has been developed for teachers and artists looking to embed creativity into school plans, offering relevant policy, evaluation and funding information, tips on planning together and case studies from artists and teachers who have worked in partnership...
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Research and Policy
The Glow Professional Learning Community for Creativity
Engage in conversation around creativity with educators right across Scotland by using the #creativity hashtag in the National Professional Learning Community...
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Research and Policy
Understanding How to Frame Your Creative Expertise
Again and again I see talented people with ideas they want to share – books they want to write, talks they want to give, businesses they want to launch – holding back because they think they "don't know enough" about their topic...
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Research and Policy
Creative Blueprint: Think Pieces
Articles about education, skills and the creative and cultural industries answer 'What does the education and skills system need to look like in order for people to lead fulfilled creative lives, and for the creative and cultural industries to thrive...
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Research and Policy
Creative Blueprint
Creative Blueprint provides research and analysis in to the skills needs of the creative and cultural industries and their contribution to the UK...
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Research and Policy
The Top 5 Qualities of Productive Creatives (And How to Identify Them!)
How do we identify the qualities that add up to creativity...
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Research and Policy
How to improve the school results: not extra maths but music, loads of it
A Bradford primary school wants the world to know its newfound SATs success is down to giving all children up to six hours of music a week...
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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
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
Futurelab
Futurelab aims to inspire, challenge and engage all young people in rich and rewarding learning experiences that will equip them with the essential skills and attitudes for life, learning and work in the 21st Century...
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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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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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Quotes
“The government and the Cultural and Creative Industries need to take a united and coherent approach that guarantees equal access for everyone to a rich cultural education and the opportunity to live a creative life...”
—Enriching Britain: Culture, Creativity and Growth - The Warwick Commission
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Quotes
“Creativity is a new: purpose, process, procedure, thought, action, style, content...”
—Professor George G. Youngson, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
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Research and Policy
Deliberate Practice?
How do you deliberately practice in the creative field where success is often external, unpredictable, and uncontrollable...
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Research and Policy
Scotland 2030: Leadership in EducationScotland’s Futures Forum / Goodison Group in Scotland Forum De
The Futures Forum and the Goodison Group in Scotland continued their exploration of schooling and learning in the future with a debate looking at the role of leadership, particularly leadership of change...