Creative Academic champions creativity in all its manifestations in higher education. Our goal is to support a global network of people interested in creativity and committed to enabling students' creative development. Our aim is to encourage educational professionals to share practices that facilitate students' creative development in all disciplines and pedagogic contexts, and to connect researchers and their research to practitioners and their practice. Our ambition is to become a global HUB for the production and curation of resources that are of value to the higher education community. We value 'openness' and most of our resources are published under a creative commons licence. We value collaboration and the partnerships we have formed with individuals and organisations. Membership is free and open to anyone who shares our interests and values. Our resources and activities are provided and supported by a great team of volunteers and we welcome new volunteers to the team.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. Pablo Picasso
Our activities involve exploration and research for better understandings and for improved practices, in particular: 1) Creativity as a concept and perceptions and narratives of our own creativity in different contexts, in particular we are exploring the ecology of creativity (see projects page) 2) The creativity of teachers and other professionals who support students' development - we are exploring the idea of personal pedagogies and how individual teachers facilitate students' creativity (see projects page) 3) The creativity of students and how their creative development is encouraged and facilitated by teachers and other professionals who contribute to their learning and development (see projects page) 4) The creativity of universities - the ways in which institutions encourage, support and recognise the creativity and creative development of students and staff. Read more Creative Academic supports and collaborates
with the #creativeHE community https://www.facebook.com/groups/creativeHE/ 
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NEW
Check out the latest issue of Creative Academic Magazine #22 on the theme of 'Creativity at Work - from Novice to Expert click here for free download 
Action, Creativity & Learning for Healthy, Sustainable, Regenerative Futures October 2022
Available at: https://www.creativeacademic.uk/magazine.html ANNUAL REPORT 2022 
VIEW A RECORDING OF OUR FIRST OPEN MIC
Celebrating creative self-expression during World Creativity and Innovation Week 
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MANIFESTO FOR CREATIVITY IN HE
In March-April 2019 Creative Academic helped facilitate an open discussion aimed at developing a manifesto to advance thinking about creativity in learning and educational practices in higher education. 
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EXPLORING CREATIVE SELF-EXPRESSION
Between March-May 2020 we engaged in an extended discussion around the theme of creative self-expression. We published two magazine #CAM 19A & B curates this conversation and provides some the articles that were used in the discussion.
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Discovering our talents - Gillian Lynne's story
Where good ideas come from - Stephen Johnson Finding your passion - Sir Ken Robinson
A thought provoking video by Susan Cain arguing that some people are more creative when they work alone. We should not believe that collaboration necessarily leads to the conditions where creativity will flourish.
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Dr Beau Lotto
The importance of agility is that it underpins creativity..what's at the heart of creativity is the ability to see differently. everything begins with perception and how we see and create meaning from the world Great example of pro-C creativity demonstrating 'the emergence in action of a novel relational product , growing out of the uniqueness of the individual on the one hand, and the materials, events, people, or circumstances of his life on the other.' Carl Rogers 1961:350 Try to visualise the ecology he created to achieve his purpose of searching for and finding ‘more than one right answer
Dewit Jones talking about creativity in his work as a photographer. Note the wonderful ecology he creates within which his professional capability and creativity is deployed.
No single right answer ’ No right or wrong answer
Erica McWilliam 'Creativity is the defeat of habit'
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CREATIVE ACADEMIC by Norman Jackson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://www.creativeacademic.uk/.
