Creativity in Higher Education

Beyond the Tingle Factor: creativity and assessment in higher education

Paul Kleiman, Deputy Director, PALATINE

Version of a paper presented at an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seminar,University of Strathclyde, Scotland. November 2005

Contents: Defining Creativity; The Creative Individual; The Creative Process; The Creative Product; The Creative Environment; Creativity and Assessment


Cox Review of Creativity in Business


Creativity or Conformity conference 2007

Abstracts and Papers

49 abstracts and accompanying papers from the Creativity or Conformity conference held at UWIC, Cardiff in January 2007.

http://www.creativityconference07.org/abstracts.php


Creative and Critical Thinking: Assessing the Foundations of a Liberal Arts Education 

Website of the Teagle Foundation funded project, involving five liberal arts colleges in Ohio, USA. The project is developing rubrics and protocols to assess creativity and critical thinking across the discplines.

Includes:Creative Thinking resources


Europe in the Creative Age

Follow-up report by Richard Florida to his book 'The Rise of the Creative Class', which "develops new indicators for the Creative Class and competitiveness that are based on the 3Ts of economic development - Technology, Talent and Tolerance - for 14 European, Scandinavian and Nordic countries and compares them to the US" (Introduction). 

This is a free download from the demos website.


The Imaginative Curriculum

Documents, Guides and Papers from the archive of the Imaginative Curriculum Network.

Keywords: Creativity; Chaos; Complexity; Assessment;


Stumbling with Confidence: towards a creative pedagogy

Podcast of Paul Kleiman's (Deputy Director, PALATINE) keynote speech at the Faculty of Health Sciences Learning and Teaching conference, Coventry University, July 2007.

Key words: creativity, assessment, curriculum design


Tackling the Wicked Problem of Creativity in Higher Education

Background paper for a presentation at the ARC Centre for the Creative Industries and Innovation, International Conference Brisbane June 2008
Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons

Norman Jackson
Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Training and Education
University of Surrey, Guildford, England