Fostering Creativity and Imagination

An extract from a presentation By 3Di AssociatesFostering Creativity and Imagination

Fostering Creativity and ImaginationWhat is the creative capacity of each of your pupils?How do you know?How do they know?

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung

Intelligent creativityPersonal choice everyone has creative capacity within them.Nurturing a passionWhere the senses work with the intuitiveOpportunities beyond the curriculum constraintsSocially intelligent sharingCreativity within the curriculum

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrongJoseph Chiltern Pearce

Intelligent imaginationWhere is the internet?How, as a school community, do you value personal learning?How are children enabled to encourage one another in their imagination?Does play stop at the door of KS1?How do we unlock imagination in a stymied world?

Imagination is more important than knowledgeAlbert Einstein