Creative Learning

“My contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.”
Sir Ken Robinson

TED Talks: Sir Ken Robinson makes a thought provoking case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity. Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children, advocating a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

Whole education and their blog also make a compelling case for spreading a different approach to learning throughout the community and throughout people's lives. They want:

'all young people to receive a well-rounded education that they can relate to... all to learn practical skills such as communication and teamwork, to develop qualities such as resilience and empathy and to acquire knowledge that goes beyond literacy and numeracy to an understanding of our culture. A Whole Education will comibine practical skills with theory, vocational and academic study for all young people whatever their ability.'

Partners behind Whole Education include Oxfam, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, RSA, Innovation Unit, Human Scale Education, UK Youth, Futurelab, ASDAN, Co-operative College, Food for Life Partnership and Campaign for Learning.

A follow on from Ken Robinson's talk is this blog - well worth a read!