The Creativity Crisis

www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html
One of the reasons I decided to start this research was a feeling that creativity levels are falling. Ten years into the new Primary curriculum I thought I should be seeing improvements in my secondary school classes, but a high precentage of recent students find it extremely hard to generate ideas for themselves. This link seems to show that this is part of an international trend.

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

Here's an interesting video for a start (click on the link above). I found it through the new Scottish curriculum website: www.ltscotland.org.uk/learningteachingandassessment/approaches/creativity/index.asp

My creativity blog

I am about to start an MLitt in Education in NCAD in September. This blog is designed to help me keep track of my research as I go along. I hope it will also be of interest to those who help me along the way, anyone concerned with boosting creativity in education and as a source to other creativity links from the web.