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The debate on creativity

When talking about creativity many people would agree that it is a wonderful thing to be
embraced epically in a schooling environment but it is not unlike other educational theories in
the sense that there are also those who disagree with the concept to be taught in schools. The
main argument here is that creativity cannot be taught nor creates the potential to become
stigmatised to children. The potential that creativity creates with children is limitless where
how do you go about teaching it in a classroom setting? You can encourage them surely, give
them some paper to draw on, some Lego to build with or even maybe an instrument to play
some music but teaching them directly? How would you go about teaching something as
marvellous as creativity to children barely old enough to realise what it even is? And there
holds the real problem, as stated earlier within the limitations teaching is near impossible to
teach but one can inspire creativity in their students. The Department of Education and Skills
suggests a rich, varied and exciting curriculum is able to be achieved through greater creative
and innovative teaching. While all well said it does once again circle back to the teacher
themselves to be the creative ones to inspire their students. The other key point to the
argument against creativity to be taught is the fear that creativity itself could be become
stigmatised to the students. Many students especially the younger children and I bet even
some of you hated your school or thought of it as wasted time and would rather be
somewhere else besides learning cursive or comprehension. The fear here is that if creativity
is forced onto the children they could start to think of it as any other part of school and grow
a concerning dislike for the entire concept in general. It was Einstein that once said, Logic
will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. What if children lose their
imaginations due to being taught creativity? We could lose one of the most valued aspects of
social life as a result for example; without creativity technology wouldnt advance, you
wouldnt have smart phones, computers or even cars or there wouldnt be any music as
without the creative spark no one would write music, play songs or even make movies. If all
these inventers, musicians, directors grew up hating creativity the world could become a very
dull place, so it falls onto the shoulders of teachers and all of us as future teachers to inspire
our students and prevent the stigmatisation from occurring and attempt to install an aura of
enjoyment and more importantly fun with the concept of creativity.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/imagine/201104/can-creativity-be-taught
http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-creativity-be-taught-in-schools
http://www.ripperdesignandmultimedia.com/2013/03/26/the-five-major-theories-ofcreativity/
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
-Einstein

(Department for Education and Skills (DfES) 2003b, 2004). Excellence and
enjoyment: a strategy for primary schools (DfES 2003a), for example, advocates a
rich, varied and exciting curriculum to be achieved through greater creative and
innovative teaching.

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