Students Imaginations and Emergence of Creativity through Curriculum--Argument for a New Educational Paradigm for Universities
The last decade is by marked substantial changes for higher education.The most important are factors such as the commercialization of educational services,global rankings of universities and the increasing competition for revenues and prestige,the new emphasis on the concept of student engagement and the increasing pressure to address the need of creativity and innovation.However,the inherent contradictions implied by various and often opposite demands from universities tend to hinder creativity and leave innovation as the unfulfilled promise of educational policies.The overarching aim of this paper is to reflect on the results of one of the most extensive studies conducted on motivation for learning and students imaginations in relation with specific symbolic contexts and conditions able to foster or hinder educational environments suitable to promote and enhance creativity.Data on what we named to be the functional imagination is used to operate an analysis of consequent implications on curriculum design for student engagement and sustainable learning environments.The aim of the paper is to open an alternative exploration of possibilities to design curriculum capable to bring ‘creativity agenda from rhetoric to practice and actively engage students in sustainable learning.
Creativity imagination role models motivation learning curriculum culture innovation standards commercialisation
Stefan Popenici
Learning and Teaching Centre, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia
国际会议
Conference on Creative Education (创新教育国际学术会议(CCE2012))
上海
英文
885-892
2012-04-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）