Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
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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
Reviews
Creativity, Wisdom, and Trusteeship
Exploring the Role of Education
December 2007 | 200 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9781412949392 | $90.95 |
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781412949408 | $40.95 |
| Lifetime | 30/09/2024 | 9781452294063 | $37.00 |
"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