Exploring Creative Social Intelligence PRESENTERS: Inez S. Bush + Asma Kazmi The Imaginative Reinvention of Education Grand Arts in Kansas City, MO February 25 and 26, 2011
Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein, Physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics
For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein, Physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics
“It’s your imagination… everyone’s got one, you’ve just got to find it.” – 10 year old student, 2003
A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified Creativity as the No. 1 leadership competency of the future. The Creativity Crisis, Newsweek, July 10, 2010
Q: Are we consistently nurturing and developing creativity through our current educational practices?
The three key motivators for humans are autonomy, mastery and purpose. – Daniel H. Pink
autonomy: compliant vs. engaged
Q: While we strive for students to be engaged, how often does the concept of teacher and administrator engagement get addressed?
TED.com
Q: What if schools carved out time for “non-commissioned” work, for autonomy?
mastery: Have you ever experienced being so focused and challenged that you lost track of time?
Flow is the mental state in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. – Conceived by Mihály Csíkszentmiháyi, Professor of Psychology and Management and founding Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research
flow
Q: How often do we provide students the opportunity to access flow? How often do we provide teachers & principals with that same opportunity?
The element is the place where the things you love to do and the things you are good at come together. – Sir Ken Robinson
Q: What happens to someone who never has the opportunity to discover their element?
educe: to draw forth from within
Q: Is there more value in asking questions or learning answers? What if the educational system’s focus was on the process of inquiry and collaborative discovery?
Reggio Emilia
purpose: how vs. why
Grace Living Center
shared purpose
knowledge-as-participation dialogue vs. knowledge-as-substance
Debating Through the Arts: a creative exchange for social change
debate caucus collaborate create present Debating Through the Arts: a creative exchange for social change
Thank you. Inez S. Bush Asma Kazmi