Sources mentioned in the lecture:

Goertzel, Mildred & Victor: (1962) Cradles of Eminence. Little Brown, Boston.

Wallas, Graham: (1926) The Art of Thought.

(0n the four stage of creativity: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination,

Verification).

Koestler, Arthur: (1964) The Act of Creation, Hutchinson, London.

Cobb, Edith: (1977) The Ecology of the Imagination. Routledge, London & New York.

Galton, Francis: (2006) Hereditory Genius. Prometheus, Arnherst, New York.

European Union 7.6.2008: Promoting Creativity and Innovation through Education and Training.

Agenda:

- creativity is the prime source of innovation, which in turn is acknowledged as the main driver of growth and wealth creation, as key to improvements in the social field and as an essential tool in addressing global challenges such as climate change, health care and sustainable development. - starting at school level, education systems need to combine the development of specific knowledge and skills together with that of generic capacities linked to creativity, such as curiosity, intuition, critical and lateral thinking, problem solving, experimentation, risk taking and the ability to learn from failure, use of the imagination and hypothetical reasoning, and a sense of entrepreneurship.

- the eight key competences for lifelong learning defined in the 2006 EU Recommendation relate to skills which are of particular relevance to creativity and the capacity to innovate. In particular, there is a need for skills and competences that enable people to embrace change as an opportunity, to remain receptive to new ideas and to respect the values of others.- teachers have a crucial role to play in nurturing and supporting the child's creative potential, and can contribute to this by exemplifying creativity in their own teaching.

Journals that have had an impact on our understanding of the development of thinking and the imagination and their development in schools.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: The ‘Gutch’ notebooks. (on his vivid imaginative childhood,

voracious appetite for reading tales with a high imaginative content

and the need for a personal response. The creative method.

Poincaré, Henri: Last Thoughts. Independently published, undated

Bashkirtseff, Marie: (1997) I am the Most Interesting Book of All. The Diaries of Marie Bashkirtseff

(transl. Phyllis Howard & Katherine Kernberger) Chronicle Books,

San Francisco.

Additional:

Brierley, David L.: (2012) Good Morning Creativity. Lived Experience in Schools. Fundación Botin

Santander/Madrid (also in Spanish)

: (2014) Arts and Emotions. The Importance of Literature and Reading for

Creativity. Fundación Botin, Santander/Madrid.

: (2011) Educating the Art of Life: Resilience and Creativity in Contemporary

Education - Address to the European Parliament. Published by The

Alliance for Childhood, Brussels.

: (2024) Brains are Born, Minds are Made -the methods of creativity in schools

and society. (in translation.- Slovenian, Spanish, Croatian/Bosnian.

: (2017) One Hundred Million Destinies Now -mindsets for the young.(translate

(translations Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian) Poesis/IWP Oslo, Zagreb,

Sarajevo).