Our education system needs to change - a Provocation

I'd like to draw your attention to our latest Provocation - a thought piece on the subject of creativity, innovation and education.  These are free to download from the NESTA website and include extended essays by key thought leaders working in innovation. They aim to foster debate and new ideas, and showcase thought-provoking work on innovation.

Beginning at the Beginning: The Creativity Gap was written for NESTA by Anthony Sargent, General Director and Katherine Zeserson, Director of Learning and Participation at The Sage Gateshead.  The essay argues that to unleash the innovative capacity of the UK in the 21st century, our education system needs to nurture the natural creative innovator in all children and ensure it is protected, nourished and stimulated into adult life.  It critiques many aspects of our current approach to education, and outlines a vision of a creative education system that operates as a whole community process.  This essay was launched in Gateshead last week and was also the subject of our latest policy breakfast in London last Friday.

I welcome your comments.

Comments

[Kavita Copas]

It is great that you highlight the natural creative innovator resides in us all as children. As a complete amateur in the world of creativity and psychology I have been observing with intense interest the natural curiosity, inventiveness and imagination of my daughter (not yet 3!).

My concern is how to maintain this natural creativeness once in the school system where conformity is crucial to survival.