For teachers, students, parents, and anyone interested in creativity, Learning and Teaching Creativity by Dan Hunter inspires and improves imagination. He details steps to improve student creativity through imagination. Hunter explores metacognition, teacher attitudes, exercises, ideation, and problem-solving techniques. Throughout the book there are stories of creative successes fueled by imagination: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Franz Schubert, Sherlock Holmes, Leonardo Da Vinci, and more. Hunter clearly explains the latest neuroscience on creativity. Hunter draws on humor, extensive research, and his lifetime of practicing and teaching creative work.
This book is for anyone looking for pathways to creativity in life or in the classroom.
Education in America is in an upheaval. We need to prepare students to adapt to innovation, generate ideas and manipulate change--which requires an agile imagination.
Learning and Teaching Creativity lays out pathways to student (and teacher) creativity with chapters on brainstorming, curiosity, flow, and finding your passion. Hunter discusses how perception, visualization, and memory are essential to imagination.
For the classroom, Learning and Teaching Creativity provides problem solving techniques, suggests teaching strategies, and discusses the value of play and pretend play.
Learning and Teaching Creativity also punctures many of the myths of creativity by drawing distinctions between creativity and imagination. All humans have imagination. All ideas begin in imagination: the ability to predict outcomes, engage in counterfactual thinking, and visualize scenarios. Imagination is how you guide your life--making day-to-day decisions as well as thinking about the most profound issues humans face. You use your imagination to make plans, decide on your lunch, or choose a color to paint the back hall. But you also use your imagination to predict life in the next century or how to reverse global warming.
Imagination is fundamental to being human. Every human being has these skills. In fact, our ancient ancestors, Homo erectus, left traces of their imagination a million years ago.
Everyone uses their imagination every day:
If you misplace your car keys, you try to visualize the keys on the kitchen counter or the back door table. This is the same imagination technique used by Einstein to visualize how light moves through the universe. There is no secret channel in the brain to visualize light in the universe. (Einstein also spent time imagining his favorite sausage for lunch.)
Our use of imagination is so frequent and common that it escapes our notice. It is a set of powerful skills: the steppingstones to creativity. It is also Einstein's process for choosing lunch.
We also need to eliminate the self-defeating myth of creative and non-creative people. Too many people balk at the challenge of "being creative" as if it were a foreign way of thinking. All human beings have imagination and use it every day. Therefore, we are all capable of generating an idea or solution that may be dubbed creative. Other people may or may not designate your idea as creative. But it doesn't matter. What matters is if your solution works, if your idea improves your life.
Learning and Teaching Creativity is "entertaining and inspiring," and "a gift to educators and students."
Life is a challenge. Imagination is required.
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