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Inspiring Moments
Creative Curriculum Fund
The purpose of this fund was to support secondary schools to embed creativity across their thinking, behaviours and systems for the long-term benefits to learners, whilst tackling a current curriculum challenge specific to the individual school...
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Inspiring Moments
Creative Wellbeing Fund Report
The Creative Wellbeing fund supported six projects across Scotland and brought together learning communities and creative partners to work together to find innovative solutions to increasing learners' wellbeing and a wider sense of achievement...
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Research and Policy
A Culture Strategy for Scotland
A Culture Strategy for Scotland shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland...
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Videos
Creativity Toybox #10 - how many ways to catch a bear?
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Creativity Toybox #4 - a million metaphors
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Research and Policy
A Creative Approach to Improvement Planning
A Powerpoint presentation by Education Scotland...
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Research and Policy
Coffitivity
A team of researchers, led by Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tested the effects of varying levels of noise on participants’ creative thinking skills, proving that moderately loud background noise boosts creative thinking...
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Videos
Creativity Toybox - Introduction
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Creativity Toybox #7 - change as many things as possible about your day
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Creativity Toybox #3 - invent your own national holiday
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Creativity Toybox #5 - making the boring interesting
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Creativity through dance at Pilrig Park School
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Research and Policy
RSA: Giving Schools the Power to Create - Developing creative capacities in learners and teachers
A summary paper on how schools can best develop pupils’ creative capacities by the RSA...
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Research and Policy
Social Rejection Can Fuel Imagination - John Hopkins University Research
A new study by a Johns Hopkins University business professor finds that social rejection can inspire imaginative thinking, particularly in individuals with a strong sense of their own independence...
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Research and Policy
Paul Collard's slides from the Attaining Creative Solutions event
Paul Collard from Culture, Creativity and Education brought his international experience and unique interpretation of the PISA statistics to bear on the attainment and equality issue here in Scotland as part of the Attaining Creative Solutions event in Edinburgh (June 2015) as part of the National Creative Learning Network annual events and the Emporium of Dangerous Ideas...
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Videos
Creativity Toybox #20 - imagine the impossible
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Research and Policy
Artists and teachers resource
This ArtWorks Scotland resource has been developed for teachers and artists looking to embed creativity into school plans, offering relevant policy, evaluation and funding information, tips on planning together and case studies from artists and teachers who have worked in partnership...
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Inspiring Moments
Bankhead: Disrupting Fairness and Equality
Hidden Giants was invited to work with Bankhead Primary, a school in Rutherglen on the outskirts of south Glasgow...
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Videos
Creativity Toybox #18 - rename the whole world
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Creativity Toybox #13 - asking difficult questions