Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

Exploring the Role of Education
Anna Craft - The Open University
Howard Gardner - Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
Guy Claxton - King's College London, UK
Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
December 2007 | 200 pages | Corwin
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"In today's 'teach-to-the-test' climate, do we ever need a book about wisdom and creativity! Our focus as educators is enriched by this book."
—Robert Di Giulio, Professor
Johnson State College

"Creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship may each sound good enough in itself, but the contributors to this volume make a compelling case for how much they need one another."
—David Perkins, Professor
Harvard University

How do creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship translate into "excellent and ethical" educational practices?

This important new volume from Anna Craft, Howard Gardner, and Guy Claxton focuses on the need to educate for "wise creativity" so that students will learn to expand their perspectives and exercise their talents responsibly within their school community and in the real world.

The editors' theories, plus contributions from noted scholars Dean Keith Simonton, David Henry Feldman, Jonathan Rowson, Helen Haste, Patrick Dillon, Hans Henrik Knoop, Christopher Bannerman, Robert J. Sternberg, and Dave Trotman, develop a concept of teachers as "trustees," or respected, nonpartisan role models who can exercise wise creativity in their classrooms and cultivate this quality in their students.

The book explores a wide range of questions, such as:

  • What is the nature of creativity and wisdom and what does it mean to exercise a balance between the two?
  • What do creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship look like in society and in the school community?
  • How can schools educate for creativity tempered by wisdom?
  • What does it take to nurture trustee leadership in the classroom and schoolwide?

Thought-provoking and incisive, Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship is essential reading for all members of the educational community.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

  • 1. Nurturing Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship in Education: A Collective Debate

Part One: Stimulus Chapters on Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

  • 2. Tensions in Creativity and Education: Enter Wisdom and Trusteeship?
  • 3. Wisdom: Advanced Creativity?
  • 4. Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

Part Two: Response Chapters on Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

  • 5. Creative Wisdom: Similarities, Contrasts, Integration, and Application
  • 6. Creativity and Wisdom: Are They Incompatible?
  • 7. How Are We Disposed to Be Creative?
  • 8. Good Thinking: The Creative and Competent Mind
  • 9. Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship: Niches of Cultural Production
  • 10. Wise Creativity and Creative Wisdom
  • 11. Creativity and Wisdom
  • 12. Leadership as a Basis for the Education of Our Children
  • 13. Liberating the Wise Educator: Cultivating Professional Judgment in Educational Practice

Part Three: Synthesizing Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

  • 14. Concluding Thoughts: Good Thinking — Education for Wise Creativity

Index

Index

Additional materials

Description

"In today's 'teach-to-the-test' climate, do we ever need a book about wisdom and creativity! Our focus as educators is enriched by this book."
—Robert Di Giulio, Professor
Johnson State College

"Creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship may each sound good enough in itself, but the contributors to this volume make a compelling case for how much they need one another."
—David Perkins, Professor
Harvard University

How do creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship translate into "excellent and ethical" educational practices?

This important new volume from Anna Craft, Howard Gardner, and Guy Claxton focuses on the need to educate for "wise creativity" so that students will learn to expand their perspectives and exercise their talents responsibly within their school community and in the real world.

The editors' theories, plus contributions from noted scholars Dean Keith Simonton, David Henry Feldman, Jonathan Rowson, Helen Haste, Patrick Dillon, Hans Henrik Knoop, Christopher Bannerman, Robert J. Sternberg, and Dave Trotman, develop a concept of teachers as "trustees," or respected, nonpartisan role models who can exercise wise creativity in their classrooms and cultivate this quality in their students.

The book explores a wide range of questions, such as:

  • What is the nature of creativity and wisdom and what does it mean to exercise a balance between the two?
  • What do creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship look like in society and in the school community?
  • How can schools educate for creativity tempered by wisdom?
  • What does it take to nurture trustee leadership in the classroom and schoolwide?

Thought-provoking and incisive, Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship is essential reading for all members of the educational community.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

About the Editors

About the Contributors

  • 1. Nurturing Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship in Education: A Collective Debate

Part One: Stimulus Chapters on Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

  • 2. Tensions in Creativity and Education: Enter Wisdom and Trusteeship?
  • 3. Wisdom: Advanced Creativity?
  • 4. Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

Part Two: Response Chapters on Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

  • 5. Creative Wisdom: Similarities, Contrasts, Integration, and Application
  • 6. Creativity and Wisdom: Are They Incompatible?
  • 7. How Are We Disposed to Be Creative?
  • 8. Good Thinking: The Creative and Competent Mind
  • 9. Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship: Niches of Cultural Production
  • 10. Wise Creativity and Creative Wisdom
  • 11. Creativity and Wisdom
  • 12. Leadership as a Basis for the Education of Our Children
  • 13. Liberating the Wise Educator: Cultivating Professional Judgment in Educational Practice

Part Three: Synthesizing Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

  • 14. Concluding Thoughts: Good Thinking — Education for Wise Creativity

Index

Index

Additional materials

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Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship

Exploring the Role of Education


December 2007 | 200 pages | Corwin

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"In today's 'teach-to-the-test' climate, do we ever need a book about wisdom and creativity! Our focus as educators is enriched by this book."
—Robert Di Giulio, Professor
Johnson State College

"Creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship may each sound good enough in itself, but the contributors to this volume make a compelling case for how much they need one another."
—David Perkins, Professor
Harvard University

How do creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship translate into "excellent and ethical" educational practices?

This important new volume from Anna Craft, Howard Gardner, and Guy Claxton focuses on the need to educate for "wise creativity" so that students will learn to expand their perspectives and exercise their talents responsibly within their school community and in the real world.

The editors' theories, plus contributions from noted scholars Dean Keith Simonton, David Henry Feldman, Jonathan Rowson, Helen Haste, Patrick Dillon, Hans Henrik Knoop, Christopher Bannerman, Robert J. Sternberg, and Dave Trotman, develop a concept of teachers as "trustees," or respected, nonpartisan role models who can exercise wise creativity in their classrooms and cultivate this quality in their students.

The book explores a wide range of questions, such as:

  • What is the nature of creativity and wisdom and what does it mean to exercise a balance between the two?
  • What do creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship look like in society and in the school community?
  • How can schools educate for creativity tempered by wisdom?
  • What does it take to nurture trustee leadership in the classroom and schoolwide?

Thought-provoking and incisive, Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship is essential reading for all members of the educational community.


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • 1. Nurturing Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship in Education: A Collective Debate
  • Part One: Stimulus Chapters on Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
  • 2. Tensions in Creativity and Education: Enter Wisdom and Trusteeship?
  • 3. Wisdom: Advanced Creativity?
  • 4. Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
  • Part Two: Response Chapters on Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
  • 5. Creative Wisdom: Similarities, Contrasts, Integration, and Application
  • 6. Creativity and Wisdom: Are They Incompatible?
  • 7. How Are We Disposed to Be Creative?
  • 8. Good Thinking: The Creative and Competent Mind
  • 9. Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship: Niches of Cultural Production
  • 10. Wise Creativity and Creative Wisdom
  • 11. Creativity and Wisdom
  • 12. Leadership as a Basis for the Education of Our Children
  • 13. Liberating the Wise Educator: Cultivating Professional Judgment in Educational Practice
  • Part Three: Synthesizing Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
  • 14. Concluding Thoughts: Good Thinking — Education for Wise Creativity
  • Index

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Wonderful, absolutely in line with my dissertation
Mr Vicky Krug, Health Prof Social Science Div, Westmoreland Co Cmty College
"Rich, varied, and highly stimulating. This book breaks new ground by identifying the opportunities and conflicts in our desire to encourage multiple virtues through education. It will nourish educational practice and encourage fresh public debate."
Tom Bentley, Executive Director of Policy and Strategy, Dept. of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria, Australia
"Creativity, wisdom, and trusteeship may each sound good enough in itself, but the multiple contributors to this volume make a compelling case for how much they need one another. Wise creativity is one of the aspirations, a quality distinctly at odds with the culture-free and economically aggressive conceptions of creativity that figure in educational and corporate agendas these days."
David Perkins, Professor, Harvard University
“Creativity, that marvelous catch-all phrase with which we are now all imbued, is a concept that is both complex and simple...a vital life force. This book is important because its fundamental proposition is that creativity and being are one and the same. Read it.”
Tim Smit, Chief Executive, The Eden Project
"The contributors' thoughts about the importance of a disciplinary framework as a necessary foundation for building greater creative and intuitive insight are so true. Their examples of the artist’s performance as being an 'interplay between the intuitive and the conscious' are wonderful. I also appreciated the discussions on the importance of collegial work and empathy."
Lynn Erickson, Educational Consultant, Author of Stirring the Heart, Head, and Soul

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