Subject: Creativity, innovation, intuition and discovery

Posted by Philip Abode on 10/13/2010
In Reply To:Creativity, innovation, intuition and discovery Posted by Richard Turnock on 10/13/2010

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Richard Turnock made a pretty profound statement IMHO, that “The existing education system is primarily teacher-centered and is immune to any change toward a student-centered classroom.” This would be a problem-defining statement if it were true. Unfortunately, I do not think this is not true and as such cannot be the basis for solving the problem associated with teaching “creativity, innovation, intuition and discovery,” if these are really teachable. There is apparently two views on institutional dominance when it comes to the public education system use as explanation or part explanation of the problem with American education system: Teachers’ Union perspective that runs through their grip of state legislators into legal constraints and budget. The other goes back to Callahan’s (1962) “Education and the Cult of Efficiency,” in which the author pointed to special interests, notably business. The question remains who or what is holding back American education and why?

As an aside, I remember years back in graduate business school in a class called “entrepreneurship and venture management,” where we discussed and all apparently agreed that children in fact cannot be said to be engaged in creative or innovative activity. That the best we can claim is that they are imaginative. Maybe the child psychologists in the house can ponder why this may be the case or not.

Philip

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