Creativity Crisis

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Toward a Post-constructivist Educational Future

By Robert Nelson

Series: Education

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Creativity Crisis by Robert Nelson critiques the prevailing university education system for its lack of creativity, highlighting how current pedagogical methods like constructive alignment foster mechanistic thinking and anxiety over skill acquisition. Drawing on a rich history of ideas from ancient Greece to modern times, Nelson proposes a radical rethinking of student-centred learning that encourages students to engage imaginatively and explore new directions in their studies. The book offers educators insights into how language and teaching methods can nurture creativity and enthusiasm in higher education.
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This book is essential for educators, university administrators, and those interested in the quality and nature of higher education instruction.

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In Creativity Crisis, Robert Nelson argues that university education is systematically uncreative and suggests how this might be changed. Constructive alignment, the centrepiece of today’s university pedagogy, promotes mechanistic thinking and the anxious gathering of manipulative skills.

Learning happens more effectively when students take their study in new directions derived from their intimate, imagined relations with the new material they are encountering. Richly steeped in the history of ideas, from ancient Greece to the present, this book radically revises the concept of student-centredness, explores the language that encourages creativity, and helps teachers cultivate imaginative enthusiasm.

Creativity Crisis is essential reading for those concerned with the nature and quality of instruction at university level.

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Professor David Boud praises the book as unique and visionary, valuing its push for an education system that is less instrumentalist and more open to imagination and creativity.

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ISBN: 9781925523270

Publisher: Monash University Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2018

Country: Australia

Imprint: Monash University Publishing

Audience: General / adult

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Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Robert Nelson is Associate Professor in the Monash Education Academy, Monash University, Melbourne, and art critic for The Age newspaper. He is the author of six previous books and over 1000 articles and reviews occasioned by his ongoing interest in how the aesthetic interacts with the moral and the educational.

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