Creativity and School Functioning
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 2987
Special Issue Editors
Interests: creativity; academic achievement; methodology; intelligence; latent variable models
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world we live in requires new skills and competencies to succeed. Creativity is among the most needed characteristics to navigate effectively in our complex reality. Yet, our schools and whole educational systems are mostly criticized as places where creativity is stifled rather than supported. Our goal with this Special Issue is to present rigorous empirical results that will allow scholars (as well as practitioners or parents) to go beyond anti-school stereotypes. We are going to provide a research-based summary of the current state of the art regarding the links between creativity and school functioning. We invite scholars who explore the relationships between creative abilities and school (academic) achievements, with a special focus on learning in general and creative learning in particular. We welcome works that study overlooked benefits of creative thinking, like the role of creativity in dealing with biases or prejudices in school and society. Finally, we are open to empirical and conceptual works that demonstrate how students’ creativity may help them deal with current challenges in and out of school, including the recent Covid-19 pandemic. We particularly welcome works that go beyond a correlational design, for example, experimental and interventional investigations that show how creativity enriches learning or longitudinal works that show how creativity and learning co-develop. Reports on new instruments measuring creative learning or teaching as well as historiometric studies that show how eminent creators functioned in school fit well into this Special Issue’s scope.
Dr. Maciej Karwowski
Dr. Dorota M. Jankowska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- creativity
- divergent thinking
- academic achievement
- misbehavior
- creative learning
- school functioning
- social relationships
- network analyses
