You can’t teach creativity, but can you learn it? | GLOBAL - University World News

Dr Alex Carter, institute teaching officer and academic director for philosophy and interdisciplinary studies at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom says, It is broadly accepted that, with ‘Industry 4.0’ in full swing, the employment landscape is changing. 
 

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Increasingly, jobs are at risk of automation. Certainly, teachers like myself are not immune, with scripted artificial intelligence or AIs already being used to deliver taught content to students. 

More generally, those I am teaching, and many people my own age, are looking forward to multiple-career lifetimes – each built on a raft of transferable skills. For these reasons, I have been working on a series of award-bearing and non-award-bearing courses at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education aimed at developing the most in-demand soft skills, in particular creativity.
 
‘You can’t teach creativity?’
As a philosophy teacher, I am familiar with the idea that some learning cannot be taught directly. Ethics is a good example of this. No philosopher could (or should) claim to be able to “make you a more ethical person”. Moreover, no curriculum on ethics can (or ought to) include the learning outcome “students will become more moral”...

Co-creation
And yet this might point towards a way of approaching the two pathways listed above: to take the students with us.

Certainly, I am not the first to suggest that the best way to develop students’ creativity is to reimagine the student-teacher relationship as one of co-creation. As co-creators, it seems to me that either of these pathways could work.
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