Encouraging creativity in education: Collection of papers – a Handbook for Current and Future Teachers
Encouraging creativity in education: Collection of papers – a Handbook for Current and Future Teachers
Editors: Ladislav Bognar, Jack Whitehead, Branko Bognar, Mira Perić Kraljik, Krešimir Munk
The book "Encouraging creativity in education: Collection of papers – a Handbook for Current and Future Teachers" contains the works submitted for the International Conference "A Creative Approach to Teacher Education". The authors are university professors, student teachers, pedagogues, primary school teachers, secondary school teachers, authors of school books and students of doctoral studies.
Participants are from Croatia and Serbia, from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, Turkey and Kenya. All articles are divided in three major groups: the articles about student teacher creativity, the articles about teacher creativity, and the articles about student creativity.
All works were reviewed in a way that the reviewers are on the same or higher scientific level than the authors. The reviewers’ comments and suggestions were sent to the authors and they made the requested corrections. In order to avoid the stereotypical approach to reviewing, the reviewers were instructed to evaluate every article by labelling the kind of creativity it is focused on, according to the Edward de Bono’s concept of lateral and parallel thinking. This approach is symbolically represented by the six hats of different colours. The table below contains the criteria for such classification of the articles.
The submissions also differ epistemologically very much. Some of them are theoretical thoughts about creativity and the role of creativity in classroom, while the others illustrate the results of action research, conducted by the aware practitioners who shared their own experiences. Very interesting are the submissions that are based on a living theory, which affirm a subjective approach to educational phenomena. All articles are published either in Croatian or English, depending on their original language. Titles and abstracts are available in both languages. It was not feasible to publish full articles in both languages due to extensive number of pages.
The submissions are mostly written texts, but there are also presentations, and videos. Such submissions are included as well, in order to present their authors and their work. There are also Internet links to such formats available. This option is also used by many authors of the written texts, which certainly presents a new multi-media quality feature.
This book was published by Profil International