How Children Learn - Book 2 by Linda Pound

Author:Linda Pound
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: theories, theory, theorist, theorists, literacy, linguistics, intelligence, classical, evolution, education, teach, lecture
ISBN: 9781907241543
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2012
Published: 2012-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

What Counts As Original?

‘Society continues to be transformed by the advent of new technologies, such as the wheel, television, the computer, and atomic energy. They arise from the efforts of creative individuals, from the power of new ideas. First, it must be recognized that such creativity builds on the technologies already available within existing institutions. A creative idea is in some sense a reformulation of existing ideas; there is nothing completely new under the sun. Something completely new would not even be recognized. Creative approaches are ideas that forge a new connection between ideas and tools that are already familiar. Creativity lies in the capacity to see more sharply and with greater insight that which one already knows or that which is buried at the margins of one’s awareness…. Second, individual creativity occurs in the context of a community of thinkers… where more than one person is working on the solution of a particular problem or within the particular genre of expression.’ (Rogoff 1990, page 198)

Being original involves expressing ideas and feelings in new ways. This may seem difficult for children to achieve since their experience and skills are necessarily limited. Ken Robinson (who chaired the group which wrote All Our Futures) describes originality in three ways – as personal (something that is new for me), social (something that is new within my community) and finally as historic (something which has not been previously thought of or developed). Tina Bruce ( [62] ) offers some similar categories which she calls everyday creators, specialist creators and world-shattering creators.

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