3. Current perspectives-making the ’familiar
strange’
Creative discourse
Has Wisdom and Creativity gone out of
Higher Education?
A Development Education model for the future
Becoming an ’Authentic Presence’ (Palmer
2007)
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4. Teaching is a paradoxical profession; expected to
build, create and innovate while at the same time
counteract excess, encourage moral responsibility and
meet all of societies needs every day!
Knowledge Society needs to be renamed the
Learning society (Hargreaves 2003)-this would
change our perspective
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5. Creative genius – rooted in the European Enlightenment
Democratic and political–sees creativity as offering empowerment
The notion of creativity as ubiquitous - which sees creativity as
pervasive
Creativity as a social good – emphasising inclusion, multiculturalism
Creativity as an economic imperative – neo-liberal discourse
Approaches emphasising play – rooted in Romantic thought
Approaches focusing on creativity and cognition –Piagetian and
Vygotskian work
Creativity and new technologies –emphasises digital technologies in
particular
The creative classroom –connections between spirituality, knowledge,
skills and pedagogy. (cited by Craft 2008)
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6. Perceptual Blocks-stereotyping, tunnel vision,
single perspective, saturation
Emotional Blocks-fear of mistakes, unwilling to
take risks, immediate solutions, premature judgement
Cultural Blocks & Associated Beliefs-
absence of fun, play, daydreaming, reflection. Tradition
and logic have high value
Environmental Obstacles-Institutional
practices, Crisis Management, uniformity
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10. Instrumental Outcome focus (Illich Myth?)
Systems thinking-We must fit in!!
Fragmentation, Ownership, Cost/Benefit processing,
specialisation rather than expertise
Research funding, Business priorities, value for money
Feeding into the ‘corporate paradox’- consumption leads
to profit-profit leads to more efficient use of resources-
efficient use of resources leads to better management of
consumption??
Knowledge becomes about power and not about
understanding and abundance thinking or nurturing
wisdom and creativity
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11. • Tolerance for Complexity and Uncertainty
• Assumption-Questioning
• A need for connectedness between human activity and the
environment -developing the ‘Ecological University’ (Barnett
2011)
• Perspective taking-self mastery before subject mastery?
• Independence
• Courage
• Challenge current opinion-find creative and wise answers
• Maturity-self insight leading to personal wisdom-’authentic
presence’
• Integrity
• Abundant Mentality
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