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Creativity: Nature or nurture?

Over the past 20 years creativity has become an increasingly important skill, and education systems around the world are trying hard to integrate it into the curriculum. But it’s been challenging to put research into practice, according to educator and Nüdel Kart founder, Marcus Veerman.
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New project investigates correlation between art and play

A multi-disciplinary creative project that engages students from a Melbourne primary school in an extended investigation into the relationships between play (personal collecting) and cultural production (institutional collections) has been conceived by artist-educator
 Kym Maxwell.
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‘Creativity’ leads schoolyard prose in 2018


Bravery, pollution, technology and environment were all strong contenders for the 2018 Australian Children’s Word of the Year but it was creativity that was named this year’s winner by Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand (OUP ANZ).
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