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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
Sir Ken Robinson - radio interview in Toronto
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Creative Partners
National Theatre of Scotland
Our mission is to make exceptional, audacious, collaborative theatre that represents the complexity of modern Scotland, and to take that theatre to our communities and to the world...
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Creative Partners
Scran
Culture Heritage Learning https://www...
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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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Images
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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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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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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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Creative Partners
Jupiter Artland Foundation
Jupiter Artland Foundation is a contemporary sculpture park set in 120 acres of woodland just outside Edinburgh...
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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
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
Creative Thinkering
A psychology based blog resurrecting your natural creativity through inspiring techniques and practical examples...
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Special
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Research and Policy
Creativity: A Choice, a Gift, and a Mission
Edutopia article by Karine Veldhoen on the pleasures and benefits of being creative and how it applies to educators...
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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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Creative Partners
Traverse Theatre
The Traverse is a hub that celebrates everyone's creativity...
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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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Inspiring Moments
Above Scotland - Architecture and Design Scotland
Above Scotland took an aerial photography exhibition as the starting point for an ambitious creative journey, empowering schools to make a difference to their local environment of such ambition that it could be photographed from the air...