Deviance and Creativity: A Different Perspective on Troublemakers
Risk-taking is one of the skills listed when describing creative individuals. It is a willingness to take chances and to fail. It is a desire to deviate and go against conformity. Often, it is an inclination to get into trouble. It is a trait that many teachers dread because it might mean dealing with a […]
Art as Therapy
In my senior year of college, we hosted a prisoner art exhibit in the campus art gallery. As art therapy students we were eager to guess the crime of the artist as we viewed each piece. We had been trained to look at content, technique, and symbolism in an effort to analyze the artwork. Anger […]
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How to Use a Native American Lens to Explore Empathy in the Classroom
How to Use a Native American Lens to Explore Empathy in the Classroom If you want to weave creativity into your curriculum, creativity pioneer, E. Paul Torrance proposed eighteen creativity skills to explore.The skills are specific and yet can be interpreted in many different ways. Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Julia Figliotti explored these skills in […]