Learn the four conditions most effective for fostering creativity
Sometimes our attempts to foster creativity can actually stifle it. Author Peter Gamwell, a former teacher and superintendent who has spent more than three decades studying creativity, shares a fresh perspective on how to nurture creativity, innovation, leadership, and engagement in a variety of settings.
You’ll learn how to:
- Tap the creative and leadership potential in everyone
- Think bigger by moving from a deficit model of thinking to a strength-based approach
- Develop the lost arts of listening and storytelling to optimize learning
- Handle the inevitable pushback and fear that transformational change can bring
‘I love this book. I am a huge fan of storytelling, and this book is one great story blended with cutting-edge academic work in the field of human mind and creativity. In The Wonder Wall Peter Gamwell and Jane Daly bring together decades of firsthand experience in creativity, leadership and learning into this volume that I indeed will, as the authors suggest, read twice. I would urge you to do the same if you want to be in the frontline of finding ways to improve your schools.’
—Pasi Sahlberg, Author
Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland, Helsinki, Finland
‘Take everything you know about learning and turn it upside down. It is there that you will find Peter Gamwell, Jane Daly and their Wonder Wall of creativity wallowing in wisdom. Yes, we have three imperatives, and four conditions, and therein you will find a treasure trove of ideas for creativity. You don’t have to leave the school system to upend it. Just read Wonder Wall and you will be swept along into doing things that engage all students and teachers. You will even get ideas about how to evaluate creativity. The timing is perfect. Go beyond skills and knowledge, light the sparks that lead to learning. Be excited about the limitless possibilities of education.’
—Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus
OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
‘Be brilliant at what you′re best at. Build on your strengths. Belong to something. These are the three imperatives that this great book sets out for young people and those who teach them. It does so with wit, wisdom, up-close experience and a magnificent capacity to tell a good tale of why all people in schools really matter. This book is its own Wonder Wall. When you′ve closed your Ken Robinson book, open this next. You′ll not be disappointed.’
—Andy Hargreaves, Brennan Chair in Education
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Cuprins
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Prologue: The Wonder Wall
1. The Start of Something Extraordinary
2. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: The Connection Between Change and Creativity
3. The Imperatives for Creativity: Getting There Is a Three-Way Street
4. Lead the Way: Leadership Development
5. Condition #1: Storytelling and Listening
6. Condition #2: Moving Beyond Diversity to Inclusivity
7. Condition #3: Making It Personal
8. Condition #4: Celebrating
9. Assessing the Culture of Creativity: How to Get Buy-In and Fellow Travelers for Your Journey to the Extraordinary
References
Index
Despre autor
Although Jane’s career took her into the marketing and communications world, she was always fascinated by the field of education and the seeds of potential in every individual—especially when one of her own sons had difficulty reading and thus became “a problem to be solved.” She has worked on numerous communications projects for educational institutions and has taught at the college level. She has often observed the challenges and opportunities that both educational organizations and businesses share when it comes to organizational learning. Jane was happy to join Peter Gamwell as coauthor for The Wonder Wall: Leading Creative Schools and Organizations in an Age of Complexity and again with Thinker, Learner, Dreamer, Doer: Innovative Pedagogies for Cultivating Every Student’s Potential. Jane freelances as a communications strategist and commercial writer by day and enjoys fiction writing by night, as well as spending time with her husband John, and their kids and grandkids, at the small Mac Laren’s Landing beach community outside of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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