Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I VOICES FROM THE FIELD
- PART II VOICES FROM THE RESEARCH
- 5 Developing Creativity Across All Areas of the Curriculum
- 6 Accountability, the Common Core, and Creativity
- 7 Ever-Broadening Conceptions of Creativity in the Classroom
- 8 Creativity in Mathematics Teaching: A Chinese Perspective (An Update)
- 9 Roads Not Taken, New Roads to Take: Looking for Creativity in the Classroom
- 10 The Five Core Attitudes and Seven I's of the Creative Process
- 11 Creativity Embedded into K–12 Teacher Preparation and Beyond
- 12 Attitude Change as the Precursor to Creativity Enhancement
- 13 Nurturing Creativity in the Engineering Classroom
- 14 Intrinsic Motivation and Creativity in the Classroom: Have We Come Full Circle?
- 15 Learning for Creativity
- 16 Creativity and Prosocial Values: Nurturing Cooperation within the Classroom
- 17 How Social-Emotional Imagination Facilitates Deep Learning and Creativity in the Classroom
- 18 Four Faces of Creativity at School
- 19 Teaching for Creativity
- 20 A Coda for Creativity in the Classroom: Take-Home Points and Final Insights
- Index
- References
17 - How Social-Emotional Imagination Facilitates Deep Learning and Creativity in the Classroom
from PART II - VOICES FROM THE RESEARCH
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2016
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART I VOICES FROM THE FIELD
- PART II VOICES FROM THE RESEARCH
- 5 Developing Creativity Across All Areas of the Curriculum
- 6 Accountability, the Common Core, and Creativity
- 7 Ever-Broadening Conceptions of Creativity in the Classroom
- 8 Creativity in Mathematics Teaching: A Chinese Perspective (An Update)
- 9 Roads Not Taken, New Roads to Take: Looking for Creativity in the Classroom
- 10 The Five Core Attitudes and Seven I's of the Creative Process
- 11 Creativity Embedded into K–12 Teacher Preparation and Beyond
- 12 Attitude Change as the Precursor to Creativity Enhancement
- 13 Nurturing Creativity in the Engineering Classroom
- 14 Intrinsic Motivation and Creativity in the Classroom: Have We Come Full Circle?
- 15 Learning for Creativity
- 16 Creativity and Prosocial Values: Nurturing Cooperation within the Classroom
- 17 How Social-Emotional Imagination Facilitates Deep Learning and Creativity in the Classroom
- 18 Four Faces of Creativity at School
- 19 Teaching for Creativity
- 20 A Coda for Creativity in the Classroom: Take-Home Points and Final Insights
- Index
- References
Summary
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling, 2008Developing creativity in students is not a luxury. Technology experts project that about 47% of current jobs in the United States will become obsolete because of computers within the next decade or two, and the jobs that will remain are those that require creative intelligence (Frey & Osborne, 2013). In this chapter we propose that supporting youths’ capacities for social-emotional imagination – their abilities to creatively conjure alternative perspectives, emotional feelings, courses of action, and outcomes for oneself and others in the short- and long-term future – is a critical missing piece in many classrooms. This mental act of imagining precedes and translates into creative behaviors – behaviors that demonstrate divergent thinking or a novel approach to a problem and result in the formation of a useful idea or work.
Students’ school success and lifelong creativity are facilitated not only by the cognitive skills measured by IQ tests but by other cognitive and social-emotional attributes. Critically, a capacity for imagination enables many of these cognitive and social-emotional skills, such as intellectual curiosity, openness to experience, passion, inspiration, love of work, envisioning future goals, persistence, sense of mission, courage, delight in deep thinking, tolerance of mistakes, and feeling comfortable as a “minority of one” (e.g., Cox, 1926; Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Fredricks, Blumfeld & Paris, 2004; Furnham & Bachtair 2008; Kaufman, 2013a, 2013b; Kaufman et al., 2015; Nusbaum & Silvia, 2011; Oyserman & Destin, 2010; Runco, Millar, Acar, & Cramond, 2010; Torrance, 1993, 2003, 2004; von Stumm, Hell, & Chamorro- Premuzic, 2011). Imagination is central because it allows students to reflect holistically about what they learn such that school-related tasks are more meaningful, personally relevant and rewarding, and more connected to the adulthood they hope to achieve one day. Imagination facilitates creative, critical dispositions toward new content and skills by helping students conjure new connections between ideas and invent new ways to represent and apply information.
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- Nurturing Creativity in the Classroom , pp. 308 - 336Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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