What is it about?
Creativity can be defined as the ability to produce original ideas and items. It also includes the combining of existing work and objects in different ways for new purposes. Creativity involves higher levels of thinking and is very important for all areas of education. Every field of study has problems to solve and relies on creative ideas for the possible solutions. Educators need to support children in the process of discovering and developing their creative potential, which is essential for them to adapt in an every changing world and to become innovative scientists, artists, engineers, and entrepreneurs of the future.
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Why is it important?
Creativity is an important tool for us to survive in rapidly every changing world. There must be quite a few born creators around us. However, we believe the capability could be enhanced by a methodology. It could be taught and should be done in schools.
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Whatever be our situations in the world, we could solve the problems with creativity. The creativity has a close relation to our problem solving capabilities. We need it for our future. We teachers have the responsibility to enhance youngsters' creativity in schools. Concretely speaking, we could use Bloom's taxonomy effectilvey to make the teaching plan.
Professor of The University of Osaka, &President of BEL Inc. Hideyuki Kanematsu
Osaka University
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This page is a summary of: Creativity and Its Importance for Education, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19234-5_1.
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