An extract from a presentation By 3Di Associates Fostering Creativity and Imagination
What is the creative capacity of each of your pupils? How do you know? How do they know? “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves”. Carl Jung
Intelligent creativity Personal choice – everyone has creative capacity within them. Nurturing a passion Where the senses work with the intuitive Opportunities beyond the curriculum constraints Socially intelligent sharing Creativity within the curriculum “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong” Joseph Chiltern Pearce
Intelligent imagination Where is the internet? How, as a school community, do you value personal learning? How are children enabled to encourage one another in their imagination? Does play stop at the door of KS1? How do we unlock imagination in a stymied world? “Imagination is more important than knowledge” Albert Einstein