tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post6862853892291181366..comments2024-03-28T00:28:06.035+13:00Comments on leading and learning: Do we really believe in creativity?Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-21566673167013702922008-08-09T18:18:00.000+12:002008-08-09T18:18:00.000+12:00I think all pre-determined curriculums put creativ...I think all pre-determined curriculums put creativity at risk - the more prescriptive the more risk. Ought not curriculum 'emerge' out of the interests , concerns, and issues that impinge on student's lives? Particularly if 'learning how to learn' is now so important along with the importance of amplifying every student's talents.<BR/><BR/>Ka kite anoBruce Hammondshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-22943043329201590242008-08-09T13:31:00.000+12:002008-08-09T13:31:00.000+12:00Tēnā kōrua!Bruce, I concur with what you say here....Tēnā kōrua!<BR/><BR/>Bruce, I concur with what you say here.<BR/><BR/>I wonder that we understand how important creativity is at all levels in education. I also wonder that we understand how important it is to <B>foster</B> creativity at all levels in education.<BR/><BR/>It's all very well telling teachers that they should foster creativity in the classroom. I think it is as important, if not more so, that the authorities recognise that creativity must be fostered at all hierarchical levels within education. That goes all the way up through senior teachers, heads of departments and principals, to ERO and the Ministry, not forgetting NZQA.<BR/><BR/>@anonymous - "a depressing compliance environment". It depressed me even more when I read it. A curriculum should be a liberating thing, not a constraint. It needs to address what learning is about. <A HREF="http://newmiddle-earth.blogspot.com/2008/06/working-to-framework-of-education-arena.html" REL="nofollow">I find it hard to look at the ‘experts’ for guidance. Experts brought us to the broken model we are in.</A><BR/><BR/>Ka kite anō<BR/>from Middle-earthBlogger In Middle-earthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08722634477041121797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-52002364852118019012008-08-08T07:56:00.000+12:002008-08-08T07:56:00.000+12:00I think there has been a lot of innovation around ...I think there has been a lot of innovation around ICT but little of this has resulted in in depth student creativity.Teachers have been working in a depressing compliance environment for so long that their creativity is at risk. The 'new' New Zealand Curriculum gives them an opportunity to be creative if they have any energy left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com