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Research and Policy
Are we offering a creative curriculum? - Programme
Programme of presentations, performances and activities at the National Creative Learning Network annual event: Are We Offering a Creative Curriculum...
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Research and Policy
How to Use Distraction to Your Advantage
Online article highlighting that psychologists say that people who’ve had creative success often have “leaky attention,” meaning that when they are concentrating on one thing, other irrelevant information can still seep into their consciousness (information that’s irrelevant to their current task, but potentially very useful longer term)...
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Research and Policy
Creative Blueprint
Creative Blueprint provides research and analysis in to the skills needs of the creative and cultural industries and their contribution to the UK...
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Research and Policy
Creative Thinkering
A psychology based blog resurrecting your natural creativity through inspiring techniques and practical examples...
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Research and Policy
The Top 5 Qualities of Productive Creatives (And How to Identify Them!)
How do we identify the qualities that add up to creativity...
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Research and Policy
5 Creativity Myths You Probably Believe
Misconceptions cloak creativity in mystique and they foster elitism—the idea that the potential for innovation and imagination is a rare gift enjoyed by only a select few creative types...
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Research and Policy
Understanding How to Frame Your Creative Expertise
Again and again I see talented people with ideas they want to share – books they want to write, talks they want to give, businesses they want to launch – holding back because they think they "don't know enough" about their topic...
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Research and Policy
Creative Little Scientists
Creative Little Scientists aims to bring together creativity and science and mathematics in preschool and first years of primary education (up to the age of eight)...
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Research and Policy
Deliberate Practice?
How do you deliberately practice in the creative field where success is often external, unpredictable, and uncontrollable...
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Research and Policy
Skills in a Nutshell
The National Parent Forum of Scotland Summary of Skills, published as part of their Curriculum for Excellence in a Nutshell series, lays out the basics behind skills across the curriculum in two sides of A4...
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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
99 Percent
99% is a think tank that focuses on what happens after inspiration - researching the forces that truly push ideas forward...
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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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Research and Policy
Global Creativity Gap
Infographic of global research by Adobe exploring perceptions of creativity in the workplace and economy...
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Inspiring Moments
Residency in Dunning Primary
This project placed a creativity practitioner in a rural primary school for one academic year...
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Research and Policy
Creativity and the Future of Work
Those who started secondary school this year will graduate in 2024...
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Research and Policy
Futurelab
Futurelab aims to inspire, challenge and engage all young people in rich and rewarding learning experiences that will equip them with the essential skills and attitudes for life, learning and work in the 21st Century...
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Research and Policy
Raising Attinment through Pupil Engagement - a report of an experiment
An action research project which took place in primary schools across Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire Councils, in partnership with the Creative Learning Networks and Hidden Giants...
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Research and Policy
Creative Learning Networks coordinators and key contacts - Development Day November 2019
NCLN (National Creative Learning Network) team photo with names of those who attended day 2 of the National Creative Learning Network annual event: Are We Offering a Creative Curriculum...
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Research and Policy
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School - direct instruction versus exploration and play
MIT and UC-Berkeley research into learning poses the following questions and provide scientific support for the idea that direct instruction can limit young children's learning...