What Is Creativity?

For our first lecture we created something from the paper that was given to us, after this completion we threw it across the room. Unfortunately for me, my boat came back to me.

Inside I wrote a 'hidden message' on what creativity is for me:

Creativity for me is about personal experience - the colours I've seen that makes the world beautiful, the passion for exploring; our imagination is made up of wild activities, from the things we've explored since from a young age is embedded into our minds and thus those memories will help us to create things that some consider as 'not relevant' or 'nothing'.

The subject of art in education promotes us to walk down a path that we've not explored before, it helps us to form and find our identity without us realising - only after a while it clicks.

Creativity and Education 

If creativity is encouraged in education it can lead to improvement of motivation, self confidence, and achievement of learners. Encouragement of creativity in pupils will lead to:

• exploration 
• open mindedness 
• decipher problems
• co-operation
• more control over their learning 

Children are already creative, at the ages from 8-10 perspectives of others becomes more dominant, they thrive to find the 'right answer'. Therefore educators should bring forth and expand the children's natural creativity and not restrain it. To accomplish this here are some approaches to learning creatively:

• Provision of efficient techniques for hands on experimentation, debates and group work.
• Encouragement of critical thinking and exploration of ideas.
• Not being ashamed of failures but learning from it.
• Open consultations of problems.
• Asking open-ended questions.
• Corroborate appraisal procedures review and reward creativity, enterprise and innovation (Scotland, 2012).