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Teaching Creativity – Creativity in Teaching

Teaching Creativity – Creativity in Teaching offers new theoretical approaches to understanding creativity in teaching and learning in higher education. The book’s thirteen chapters contain inspiring examples from people professionally engaged in teaching, learning and assessment. Researchers and practitioners from three continents discuss how teachers can improve students’ creative capacity. Topics covered include: 

• creating learning environments that nurture and value doctoral creativity;
• the influence of generation membership, culture and personality factors on students’ creative learning preferences;
• how assessment practices affect the conditions for creativity and thus students’ experiences of learning;
• strategies and tactics for teaching creativity in an environment that values criticality;
• students’ questioning strategies and how they reveal their approaches to creativity;
• how the diverse views about the notion of creativity affect approaches to creative learning or teaching;
• the importance of explicitly supporting both creativity and reflection, terms whose understanding differs between tutors and students;
• the need for more engagement with creativity as an outcome of pedagogical work in higher education;
• how the use of visual metaphoric storytelling can foster creativity;
• the use of photographs as a foundation from which to develop creative conversations;
• the relationship between culture and teacher education and the major challenges it can pose;
• lessons from setting up a cross-disciplinary centre in creativity in a university.

Teaching Creativity – Creativity in Teaching results from a symposium arranged by the international academic association, Institute for Learning in Higher Education (LiHE). This is an essential book for anyone wanting to identify ways of developing a curriculum that genuinely fosters creativity.

Published: 2010

Pages: 245

ISBN: 9781907471179

About the editors of Teaching Creativity – Creativity in Teaching

Claus Nygaard is a Professor in Management Education and Director of Research at CBS Learning Lab, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He was a driving force behind the formulation and implementation of the Learning Strategy for Copenhagen Business School in 2005. He has received distinguished research awards from Allied Academies, outstanding paper awards from Students in Free Enterprise, and voted ‘best teacher’ at Copenhagen Business School in 2001. His research has resulted in several anthologies. He has published in leading journals, including Higher Education, International Studies of Management & Organization, International Journal of Public Sector Management, and Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.

Clive Holtham is Professor of Information Management and Director of the Learning Laboratory at Cass Business School, London, UK. In 2003 he was awarded a UK National Teaching Fellowship and is a board member of the Non-Profit E-learning Network (2008–11), a major initiative to promote management education through informal online learning. He is the author of many publications and lectures, broadcasts and consults in the UK and internationally. He was a founding member of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, the City of London’s 100th livery company.

Nigel Courtney is an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School, City University London, UK. He is a chartered engineer, a certified management consultant, and a certified IT professional with extensive project and general management experience. His firm, Courtney Consulting, has served the European Commission, Transport for London, London Underground, the Higher Education Academy and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. At Cass, he teaches Business Information Management on the Executive MBA.