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Love this: Creativity Can Be Measured – in Diverse Ways. What we can learn from PISA
The latest on PISA Creative Thinking results: Kylie Murphy: PISA results show thinking can be cultivated. Australian teachers …
Fourth in the whole world! Yet the government doesn’t care
Since PISA released its first creative thinking test results last week, there has been a flurry of commentary …
Fourth in the world in creative thinking: how good!?!?
For the first time, global PISA data includes an assessment of fifteen-year-old students’ ‘creative thinking’. The 2022 results for this new measure are now out – and the implications challenge some beliefs about teaching creative thinking. Australia ranks fourth among the eighty-one participating countries. Australia’s ranking on creative thinking positions us just behind Singapore, South Korea, …
We can teach it so much better once we know what it is
‘Critical’ and ‘creative’ are commonly used terms, but shared understandings of these terms are less frequent. Critical and …
How to really engage students online
From engaging on social media to attending virtual conferences, across the globe, academia has experienced how digital spaces …
Making space in our schools for children to develop their creativity
Nurturing creativity is a key focus of twenty-first century educational and employment discourses here and around the world. …
Building creative futures from the powerful stories and voice of First Nations peoples
Australia Day this year was marked by thousands of people marching against holding our national celebration on 26th January. …
Creative industries are essential for our future economy. What are they? How our roadshow helps schools open CI futures for their students
The Creative Industries were included as a Strategy for 21st Century Australia by the Australian Government back in …
Creativity in Australian schools suppressed by onerous testing regime and crushing teacher restrictions
Once upon a time early childhood teachers used to learn singing and playing the piano, primary school teachers could study electives (and even majors) in areas such as drama and art, and universities could add new courses (such as ones in teacher as entrepreneur or global citizenship) through putting in a course variation form to …
Arts education is vital to help foster creativity and innovation
I have a dream that this nation will achieve its full creative and economic potential and that Arts education will rightfully be seen as central to making this happen. It worries me that current thinking and policymaking around national innovation concentrates on increasing participation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects while the teaching …