Cultivating Imagination and Creativity: Strategies in Education

This presentation delves into the significance of imagination and creativity in education, highlighting their role as motivators in teaching and learning. It emphasizes the importance of these skills in the 21st century and explores how to cultivate a culture of imagination and creativity in schools by role-modeling creativity, cross-fertilizing thinking across subjects, and linking new thinking to student interests. The presentation also addresses challenges such as educator biases and lack of proactive thinking, and outlines a creative thinking learning continuum involving posing questions, clarifying information, connecting ideas, considering alternatives, and seeking solutions. It references the 8 Aboriginal ways of learning pedagogy and the four elements of the Australian Curriculum Learning Continuum. The presentation concludes by discussing resources for staff and students, such as imaginative learning cards, and their implications for developing divergent thinking skills and fostering analytical skills in both students and teachers, with references to various scholarly articles on the subject.

Imagination and Creativity in
Education
NAME OF THE STUDENT
NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY
AUTHOR NOTE

Imagination
 Faculty that helps in the formation
of new ideas or concepts
 Ability of mind so that it can be
creative
 It helps the mind in being
resourceful
Creativity
 The using of the imagination that
can help in the creation of
something
 It is indicative of the process that
helps in the creation of something
that is new

Significance of Imagination and
Creativity in education
 Imagination along with creativity
can act as great motivator
pertaining to the teaching and
learning process
 The students get inspired to
engage in different kinds of
creative acts
 They act as they key skills in the 21st
century
 A culture of imagination along
with creativity can help in taking
the focus off that of performance
based education

Culture of imagination and
creativity at schools
 The culture of imagination and
creativity can be created in school
with the help of:
 Role model creativity
 Cross-fertilising thinking across that of
different subject areas
 Linking of new thinking to the
interests of the students
 Allowing the students for uncovering
their interest
 Giving enough time to the students
so that they can think creatively
 Encouraging collaboration
 Allowing mistakes along with sensible
risk taking

Challenges at Schools
 The biases of the educators
 Different points of view of
individuals
 Lack of pro-active thinking among
the management

Curriculum
Creative Thinking Learning
Continuum in School
 Posing questions
 Identification and clarification of
information along with ideas
 Processing of information
 Connecting the ideas
 Considering the alternatives
 Seeking solutions and putting the
ideas into that of action

Method of teaching creativity at
school
The 8 Aboriginal ways of learning
pedagogy
 It was developed by Dr. Tyson
Yunkaporta
 Symbols are incorporated into that
of the teaching program

Four elements of Australian Curriculum Learning
Continuum
 Inquiring
 Generating ideas
 Reflection of thinking
 Evaluation pertaining to reasoning

Resources for Staff and Students
 Imaginative learning cards can be
made use of that can help in
fostering the element of creativity
in the children
 These cards were developed from
Liu and Noppe- Brandon article
 They comprise of different kinds of
meta-skills that is necessary for the
purpose of imaginative thinking

Implications for students
 Students develop the ability of
divergent thinking
 It can help in developing their
creative faculty that can prove to
be useful for their future

Implications for teachers
 An interactive class can prove to
be a source of joy for the teachers
 The teachers can further their
analytical skills as the students
challenge the teachers

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