Schools Kill Creativity

Research on the Education System That Kills Creativity

Books

Who Killed Creativity? - Who Killed Creativity? a great book by Jason Gallette, Andrew & Gaia Grant; first published in 2012, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 300 pages.

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity - the first book of Hugh MacLeod, the popular author of gapingvoid.com

Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative - How we unlearn to be creative at school and what we can do against it; how to learn to be creative again.

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything - Sir Ken Robinson's best-selling book based on a collection of interviews with highly successful people.

The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At a Time - a real case book on how the 7 Habits paradigm was applied in teaching leadership to kids; by Stephen R. Covey (2008)

Stop Stealing Dreams - Stop Stealing Dreams is a 30.000-word manifesto written by Seth Godin; first published as a free e-book in February 2012;

Videos

Sir Ken Robinson's famous speech at TED - Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson's famous speeech at the TED conference in Monterey, CA (2006)

The transcript of Sir Ken Robinson's speech at TED - download the transcript of Ken Robinson's speech here (PDF)

Amy Tan on Creativity - Amy Tan on Creativity - another TED speech, filmed Feb 2008

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity - Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity - another great speech at the TED Conference, recorded Feb 2009

Community

EduCreations - Teach what you know. Learn what you don't.
Create and share great video lessons with your iPad or browser. EduCreations is an iPad app, available in the App Store.

Organizations

Americans For The Arts - Americans For The Arts; Keep Arts in Our Schools; AFTA is the leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America.

Schlechty Center - transforming America's schools - The Schlechty Center is a private, nonprofit organization committed to partnering with school leaders across the United States of America to transform their classrooms, schools, and school districts from places focused on compliance to those focused on engagement.

Blog posts

Learners Will Inherit the Earth: Alistair Smith on Fixing Education - Learners Will Inherit the Earth: Alistair Smith on Fixing Education; by Maria Popova (2011)
Is College Obsolete? - One hundred years ago college didn't matter for getting a job. Nowadays, colleges, credentialism and hierarchies have commonly failed and hyperlinks replaced them. An insightful blog post by Alex Krupp (2009)
What is School For? - we spend a lot of time and money on schools but not many people ask the question, what it's really good for to go to school; Seth Godin's blog post (2009)
Life Without School - a thoughtful reflection on Sir Ken Robinson's address at TED by a homeschooling mother of three kids
Another Blog Post - another blog post at ScienceBlogs, with some interesting comments reflecting on Ken Robinson's lecture
A blog post at Superdistribution.net - a nicely written article reflecting on Ken Robinson's speech; by Sören Stamer (2007)

Academic sources

scholar.google.com - Do a quick search on Google Scholar
Scientific Literature Digital Library - Scientific Literature Digital Library
INDERSCIENCE.com - INDERSCIENCE PUBLISHERS; Publishers of distinguished academic, scientific and professional Journals
Scientific Commons - a Community for Scientific Information (BETA)

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