Creative Development: Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention

by Robert Kelly

Spark continual creative growth for both learners and educators. Topics How to create an educational culture conducive to creative development.Effective instructional design and assessment as creativity.Bridging the gap between design thinking and design doing.Teacher education and training for creative classrooms.Key vocabulary and theory in the field of creativity.Creativity is a key ingredient for success in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, where skills such as collaboration, communication, and critical thinking are central. Most educators agree that encouraging creativity must become a central goal in the classroom, but they face an ongoing struggle to build and maintain an environment that promotes their students’ creative development. In Creative Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention, Robert Kelly equips educators with the theory, strategies, and tactics that allow creativity to flourish. Creative Development features voices from the field to showcase practical, real-life examples of successfully fostering creative development in education.

242 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 29, 2016

About the author

Kelly has published more than fifty books of poetry and prose, including Red Actions: Selected Poems 1960-1993 (1995) and a collection of short fictions, A Transparent Tree (1985). Many were published by the Black Sparrow Press. He also edited the anthology A Controversy of Poets (1965).Kelly was of great help to the Hungryalist group of poets of India during the trial of Malay Roychoudhury,with whom he had correspondence,now archived at Kolkata.

Kelly received the Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award (1980) for Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News and the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation (1991) for In Time.

Reviews

[Andra · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a textbook for my Design Thinking course and though it was required, it was inspiring from start to finish. If you are an educator interested in this area of study, it is well worth your time to read.