Exciting news this week as two important documents relating to creativity across learning were launched at the Scottish Learning Festival:
Published by Creative Scotland, Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan aims to inspire educational policy makers and practitioners to utilise creativity to benefit learners in schools and other settings.
The Creative Learning Plan is the result of work by a partnership of organisations working across Scotland in education and creativity and sets out an ambitious vision for creativity in education over the next 10 years.
Among the changes the partnership is aiming for are:
- New policies and plans supporting creativity throughout Scotland
- More creative teaching practices and support for creative initiatives within local authorities, schools and places of learning
- More support for and understanding of the value of creativity and experiential learning by parents and carers.
Find out more and download the Plan here: Creative Learning Plan
Education Scotland’s Curriculum Impact Report on Creativity Across Learning sets out key findings from a review of current practice in Scotland and focuses specifically on the development of creativity skills in learners. It proposes a definition of creativity is and identifies a set of core creative skills or attributes.
‘Scotland needs to prepare its young people for life and work in an uncertain economic and social environment if they are to thrive in an era of increasingly rapid change. The need for a well-developed set of higher-order skills will be a key part of the toolkit they will need and the ability to think creatively will be one of the most important tools in that toolkit’.
Download the Creativity Across Learning 3-18 Curriculum Impact Report here:
