Creative Contradictions in Education

Cross Disciplinary Paradoxes and Perspectives

Ronald A Beghetto editor Bharath Sriraman editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:27th Jun '18

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Creative Contradictions in Education is a provocative collection of essays by international experts who tackle difficult questions about creativity in education from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine and provide fresh insights into the tensions and contradictions that researchers and educators face when attempting to understand and apply creativity in educational contexts.    Creativity in education is surrounded by many contradictions. Teachers generally value creativity, but question the role it can and should play in their classroom. Many educators find themselves feeling caught between the push to promote students’ creative thinking skills and the pull to meet external curricular mandates, increased performance monitoring, and various other curricular constraints. This book brings together leading experts who provide fresh, cross-disciplinary insights into how creative contradictions in education might be addressed. Contributors will draw from existing empirical and theoretical work, but push beyond “what currently is” and comment on future possibilities. This includes challenging the orthodoxy of traditional conceptions of creativity in education or making a case for maintaining particular orthodoxies.    

ISBN: 9783319793696

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 5562g

354 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017