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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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Videos
Ricardo Semler: How to run a company with (almost) no rules
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Quotes
“Creativity means to me being able to branch out and bring disabled peoples' stories to the stage...”
—Robert Softley Gale, Birds of Paradise Theatre Company
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Research and Policy
Paul Collard's slides from the Attaining Creative Solutions event
Paul Collard from Culture, Creativity and Education brought his international experience and unique interpretation of the PISA statistics to bear on the attainment and equality issue here in Scotland as part of the Attaining Creative Solutions event in Edinburgh (June 2015) as part of the National Creative Learning Network annual events and the Emporium of Dangerous Ideas...
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Creative Partners
Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art offering an unrivalled programme of exhibitions, commissions and special events...
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Quotes
“There is an educational rationale for creative capacity development as a means to raise overall achievement, and close stubborn, persistent achievement gaps...”
—RSA: Giving Schools the Power to Create - Developing creative capacities in learners and teachers
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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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Creative Partners
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland (YTAS) is the national development organisation and umbrella body for Scotland’s youth theatre sector...
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Research and Policy
The traditional office is dead. Here's why
Innovative companies have embraced the theory that playful features within an office can boost creativity...
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Online Teaching Tools
Marks on the Landscape
An interdisciplinary creative learning and teaching resource based around Fife Earth, an ambitious land regeneration project...
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Videos
Changing Education Paradigms - Sir Ken Robinson
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Creative Partners
Flummix
The Flummix STEM-Antics workshops and shows successfully unite the arts and STEM subjects to develop skills in creativity, computational thinking and confidence...
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Creative Partners
Citizens Theatre
The Citizens Theatre presents a mixture of contemporary versions of classic plays and new Scottish drama...
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Creative Partners
Drake Music Scotland
Drake Music Scotland, established in 1997 are the nation’s leading national organisation providing music education opportunities for disabled people, and those with additional support needs, and were Scotland’s Charity of the year in 2019...
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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...
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Research and Policy
Creativity and Learning: what is the connection?
A thought piece by Paul Collard, Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education, that argues creative learning has a positive impact on learning and attainment because it inherently develops the executive functions of the brain...
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Creative Partners
Horsecross Arts
Horsecross Arts Ltd runs Perth Theatre and Perth Concert Hall...
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Research and Policy
Education Reimagined: The Future of Learning
The pandemic has disturbed all sectors of society and revealed its fault lines—especially in our education systems...
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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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Videos
Creativity through dance at Pilrig Park School