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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
Scotland's Creative Learning Plan
September 2013 saw publication of Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan which was developed with a range of partners...
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Research and Policy
Creative Conversations within Education Scotland - evaluation report
Creative conversations within Education Scotland posed the question "What is creativity...
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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
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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Quotes
“An inherent link seems to exist between creativity and science and mathematics education...”
—Creative Little Scientists, EU Funded Research Project
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Research and Policy
A Creative Approach to Improvement Planning
A Powerpoint presentation by Education Scotland...
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Quotes
“Think of creativity as applied imagination...”
—The Element, 2009 by Ken Robinson
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Research and Policy
The National Parent Forum of Scotland Guide to Creativity
The National Parent Forum of Scotland nutshell guide, with a focus on Creativity, Enterprise and Employability, is aimed at parents with children of all ages...
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Research and Policy
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
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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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
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
Scotland's Creative Learning Plan at a Glance
A summary of Scotland's national plan for embedding creativity across Scotland's education system, designed as a printed booklet...
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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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Quotes
“The global labour market in 2030 is likely to be highly competitive...”
—The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 (UKCES)
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Research and Policy
Creative Little Scientists
Creative Little Scientists aims to bring together creativity and science and mathematics in preschool and first years of primary education (up to the age of eight)...
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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
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...