"In today′s ′teach-to-the-test′ climate, do we ever need a book about wisdom and creativity! Our focus as educators is enriched by this book."—Robert Di Giulio, Professor Johnson State College"Creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship may each sound good enough in itself, but the contributors to this volume make a compelling case for how much they need one another."—David Perkins, Professor Harvard UniversityHow do creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship translate into "excellent and ethical" educational practices? This important new volume from Anna Craft, Howard Gardner, and Guy Claxton focuses on the need to educate for "wise creativity" so that students will learn to expand their perspectives and exercise their talents responsibly within their school community and in the real world. The editors′ theories, plus contributions from noted scholars Dean Keith Simonton, David Henry Feldman, Jonathan Rowson, Helen Haste, Patrick Dillon, Hans Henrik Knoop, Christopher Bannerman, Robert J. Sternberg, and Dave Trotman, develop a concept of teachers as "trustees," or respected, nonpartisan role models who can exercise wise creativity in their classrooms and cultivate this quality in their students.The book explores a wide range of questions, such as:What is the nature of creativity and wisdom and what does it mean to exercise a balance between the two?What do creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship look like in society and in the school community?How can schools educate for creativity tempered by wisdom?What does it take to nurture trustee leadership in the classroom and schoolwide?Thought-provoking and incisive, Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship is essential reading for all members of the educational community.
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An international panel of distinguished experts explores the balance between creativity and wise action, and calls for educators to nurture "wise creativity" in their students.
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
About the Contributors
1. Nurturing Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship in Education: A Collective Debate - Anna Craft, Howard Gardner, Guy Claxton
Part One: Stimulus Chapters on Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
2. Tensions in Creativity and Education: Enter Wisdom and Trusteeship? - Anna Craft
3. Wisdom: Advanced Creativity? - Guy Claxton
4. Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship - Howard Gardner
Part Two: Response Chapters on Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
5. Creative Wisdom: Similarities, Contrasts, Integration, and Application - Dean Keith Simonton
6. Creativity and Wisdom: Are They Incompatible? - David Henry Feldman
7. How Are We Disposed to Be Creative? - Jonathan Rowson
8. Good Thinking: The Creative and Competent Mind - Helen Haste
9. Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship: Niches of Cultural Production - Patrick Dillon
10. Wise Creativity and Creative Wisdom - Hans Henrik Knoop
11. Creativity and Wisdom - Christopher Bannerman
12. Leadership as a Basis for the Education of Our Children - Robert J. Sternberg
13. Liberating the Wise Educator: Cultivating Professional Judgment in Educational Practice - Dave Trotman
Part Three: Synthesizing Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
14. Concluding Thoughts: Good Thinking — Education for Wise Creativity - Guy Claxton, Anna Craft, Howard Gardner
Index
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"The contributors′ thoughts about the importance of a disciplinary framework as a necessary foundation for building greater creative and intuitive insight are so true. Their examples of the artist’s performance as being an ′interplay between the intuitive and the conscious′ are wonderful. I also appreciated the discussions on the importance of collegial work and empathy."
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781412949392
Publisert
2008-02-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Corwin Press Inc
Vekt
570 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
177 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
200