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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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Research and Policy
Eric Booth Website
As "one of the 25 most important people in American arts education" Eric Booth has influenced our own thinking about creativity across teaching and learning here in Scotland...
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Creativity Toybox #10 - how many ways to catch a bear?
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Research and Policy
A Creative Approach to Improvement Planning
A Powerpoint presentation by Education Scotland...
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Videos
Creativity Toybox - Introduction
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Creativity Toybox #4 - a million metaphors
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Research and Policy
GTCS Professional Recognition Award - Creative Learning
GTC Scotland's Professional Recognition Award in Creative Learning recognises the enhanced, significant and sustained enquiry a teacher has undertaken and the development of their professional learning in this area...
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Creativity Toybox #7 - change as many things as possible about your day
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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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Research and Policy
Creativity and Tackling Prejudice
Powerpoint Presentation by Stephen Bullock, Development Officer for Creativity with Education Scotland, delivered to the Education Scotland & Renfrewshire Council national event: Tackling Prejudiced based bullying & Promoting Equality and Diversity It argues that the creativity skills, especially open-mindedness, are central to tackling prejudice and prejudice based bullying and are a means of embedding this agenda across the curriculum and challenging prejudice at its root, in the habits of mind of the individual...
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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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Cultures of Creativity, nurturing creative mindsets
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Creativity Toybox #13 - asking difficult questions
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Research and Policy
Teachers Who Promote Creativity See Educational Results
Creativity in the classroom goes hand in hand with exceptional student learning, according to a new Gallup study examining U...
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Creativity Toybox #17 - silent chinese whispers
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Creativity Toybox #8 - tell stories with sounds
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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
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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Videos
Creativity Toybox #18 - rename the whole world
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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...