Download paper: The creative application of knowledge in university education: a case study
This paper documents a research project undertaken by the authors to investigate the recognized need for creativity based education at all levels. National and international bodies in business, politics and education have emphasized the need for creativity, recognising the importance of innovative and creative thinking in a wide range of human endeavors. Acknowledging the need to cope with constant change that will only increase in the future.
The Robinson Report in the UK ‘All Our Future: Creativity, Culture and Education’ argues that the future success for all organisations now lies in new approaches to developing the creative talents of employees and the need to educate for a creative workforce. To keep pace [businesses] need people who can consistently generate new ideas and adapt to constant change. (Robinson, 1998)
Schools and universities are not educating for creativity, in fact they ‘systematically suppress creative thinking’. Robinson goes on to say that old models of education cannot successfully promote creativity at all levels of education but for future success this must change. Our project sets out to explore ways that this can be achieved, and the kind of changes necessary in policy and approach.