It's how their creativity is nurtured day by day that determines how their creativity develops further.
Nurturing creativity and multi intelligences - beyond the industrial age maths and literacy model is the golden egg for the much needed and long overdue education revolution.
Public education - where children were made to sit still hour after hour, day after day in neat rows, to learn maths and literacy was the invention of the industrial age.
At that time it served a particular purpose - to make people learn how to fit into the system, to follow orders, to fulfill a job description, not make mistakes and not ask questions - and not to think too much.
And we all know that now in our post industrial age new challenges are at the forefront that cannot be solved in the same way as we did previously. We -and our kids will need bold creative ideas and new ways of looking at complex problems.
Ken Robinson - ex professor and devoted education revolutionist reminds us that the children born today will be retiring in 2076. He asks us adults to consider what we are preparing the children to do that could have any value in their lives well after we've left the planet. Because one thing is for certain - the one thing that will be needed in 2050 to address the big issues we can't even begin to imagine is bucket loads of creativity beyond our industrialised vision.
And that he says is what transformational creative education is all about - finding out how to allow the child's creativity to flow and florish fearlessly.
Navel Gazing Questions:
1) To what degree am I shutting down or nurturing creativity in the children in my life?
2) And a follow up question - what can I do today to nurture creativity in a child?
3) What do I wish my teachers could have known about me while I was in my school years?
By Zelda Sheldon
Director Ukulele Baby Music
Music and Movement programs for creative kids newborn to kindy
www.ukulelebabymusic.com
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