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This paper shares reflections and stories from a collaborative design process between the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab and a global network of community-based educators to develop a creative coding app called OctoStudio, which supports children and families to create and share interactive projects on mobile devices. The app design is grounded in practices that community-based educators who are primarily from the Global South have developed around strengths, needs, and interests of children and their communities, as well as constraints and affordances of local infrastructure. We use the lens of minimal computing – which focuses on community context and constraints in decisions about technology – to describe our collaborative work on OctoStudio. We describe trade-offs involved in the design decisions, and highlight insights from the process of collaboration to develop tools and practices that are more responsive and meaningful to communities who are often excluded from design decisions that impact them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global creativity indices in developing countries tend to be low. In the field of education, creativity has an important role. Efforts to increase the creativity of educational human resources continue to be hyped. Creative teachers produce creative students. But, the fact is that teachers in developing countries tend to need more creativity in teaching. This study aims to analyze the influence of organizational climate in the school environment and teacher career development on teacher creativity in teaching. The sample of this study was 145 junior high school private teachers in Semarang Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. Statistical analysis using PLSSEM and PLSpredict. The results showed that the school's organizational climate positively affected teacher creativity in teaching. Teacher career development also positively affects teacher creativity in teaching. In addition, teacher career development mediates the influence of school organizational climate and teacher creativity in teaching. The findings could help schools or private educational institutions to understand how organizational climate affects teachers' creativity in teaching. So that it can be used as a guideline for schools or other educational institutions to increase teacher creativity in teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a social constructivist perspective, learning happens by way of engagement with other people and with objects in the environment, often through a process of play and exploration. The notion of tinkering illustrates this mode of creative play, which is relevant not only to youth learning but also to educators' professional learning. In this study, we describe the experiences of a group of educators who participated in a professional learning program in the summer of 2020 that involved a series of activities for "tinkering at home." Interviews focused on participants' sense-making processes, the resources they sought out, and the facilitation choices they made if they included others in their tinkering. Thematic analysis revealed four characteristic features of the affective and relational flow of learning through tinkering: (1) generative openings, (2) multiple pathways for exploration, (3) impasse, and (4) resolution through social interaction. We discuss the implications of these themes for reflective pedagogical practice that is grounded in educators' own experiential learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to investigate and explore potential factors influencing the creative performance of using SIAKAD web-based learning (SWBL). This study utilized the effect of SWBL to improve students' creative learning in English Syntactic Structure class. However, SWBL was theoretically researched, and this study's perspective enriched teachers' learning creativity. Therefore, the SWBL has been designed as a learning environment system with planning, learning, evaluation, and reflection based on attributes, processes, and learning contexts. Fifty students participated as participants that were randomly assigned to be the experimental and the control group. This study used quantitative research with a quasiexperimental design. This research method was used to determine which group was effective in helping students improve their academic achievement in English Syntactic Structure. Treatment was provided in the experimental group by conducting English Syntactic Structure on the SWBL while the control group was performing a lecturing learning class. The data were analyzed by using tcount and ttable. The final data was evaluated using the Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS 23). The result of this study indicated that the students using the SWBL in the English Syntactic Structure class exhibited significant improvement in creativity performance. The experimental class students who used web-based learning scored 16.111 higher than the control class. Furthermore, the SWBL capabilities of the experimental group demonstrated gradual and continuous improvement. In addition, students' thinking skills and academic achievement in the experimental group are discussed in depth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The innovative material integration of mindfulness and social and emotional learning (SEL) introduces a novel approach to teaching within the context of the family literacy classroom. Recognizing the interconnectedness of cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal skills in the learning process, this article proposes a holistic framework that promotes not only literacy development but also emotional intelligence and well-being for both children and their families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractCreative learning can be understood as a process of personal transformation driven by the acquisition of new knowledge and skills through active participation in projects that are meaningful to the individuals. This process enables them to develop the capacity for innovation in different contexts. Contemporary technologies that allow more physical and immersive modes of interaction brought the concept of enactive systems, technological environments where there is a form of dynamic body-technology coupling. In this work, we present results from a systematic literature review of studies that supported creative learning using interactive environments with enactive characteristics, in educational contexts. The systematic review was conducted based on works published during the period of 2012–2022. The methodology details the research questions, selection criteria, search string, data collection and the quality and relevance of the selected documents. Results showed that environments of the selected studies present mainly the embodiment and emergence characteristics as part of their interaction. These environments promoted user initiatives, enabled users to think creatively and encouraged communication and collaboration. Results also point out other aspects of enactive approaches to cognition such as autonomy, sense-making, and intersubjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultivating children's creativity and imagination is fundamental to preparing them for an increasingly complex and uncertain future. Engaging in creative learning enables children to think independently and critically, work cooperatively, and take risks while actively engaged in meaningful projects. While current trends in education, such as maker movements and computer science education, are dramatically expanding children's opportunities for engagement in creative learning, comparatively few empirical studies explore how creative learning can be integrated into elementary school curricula. In this paper, we investigated five key design strategies for integrating creative learning in school curricula through computer programming activities. The five design strategies, drawn from design meetings with in-service teachers and two pilot studies, comprise (1) prepare an object-to-think-with for specific curricular ideas, (2) find a context that provokes a leap of ideas within a disciplinary framework, (3) facilitate tinkering through disciplinary inquiry, (4) pair students and establishing developer and researcher roles, and (5) provide feedback to connect computer programming projects to disciplinary ideas. Implementing these strategies with mixed-method analysis indicated positive support for the efficacy of these design strategies. We also provide insights into difficulties with integrating creative learning into school curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced in creating professional-level media content. In creative education, determining how students can benefit without becoming dependent on them is a challenge. In this study, researchers conducted an exploratory experiment that positioned AI as a relational artifact to students in a series of drawing activities and examined the potential impact of affective relations with machines in socio-cultural creative learning. The resulting artifacts, observations, and interview transcripts were analyzed using the Consensual Assessment Technique and a grounded theory approach. The study's results indicate that the design professors reliably evaluated the student drawings as more creative than the AI drawings, but neither demonstrated a consistent increase in creativity. However, the presence of AI engaged the students to explore different approaches to artistic prompts. We theorize that AI can be mediated as a learning artifact for transformative creativity if the students perceive their relationship with AI as empathetic and collaborative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research aims to analyze the performance of creative and productive learning strategies in the subject of Physical Education and Health (PJOK) for 10th-grade students at SMAN 5 Sekayu. The population of this study consists of 10th-grade students at SMAN 5 Sekayu. The qualitative descriptive method was employed, and the sampling technique used in this study was total sampling, where the entire population was included as the sample, resulting in 35 respondents. Data collection techniques included questionnaires, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis techniques involved data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that the creative and productive learning strategies in the PJOK subject for 10th-grade students at SMAN 5 Sekayu are categorized as highly effective, accounting for 82.4%. The conclusion of this study is that the analysis of creative and productive learning strategies in the PJOK subject for 10th-grade students at SMAN 5 Sekayu falls under the category of excellent. The implication is that these strategies can be adopted and implemented in other subjects at the same school or similar institutions.

Teacher creativity in teaching using technology such as mobile learning has been widely applied in developed countries, because it is a 21st century skill. However, only a few lecturers in developing countries, such as Indonesia, are incorporating mobile learning with technological tools, like the Discord application, to create a stimulating and interactive learning experience for their students. For data collection, a questionnaire comprising 26 questions with 6 scales was used. The questionnaire was sourced from www.ueq-online.org, and the data collected from the study were carefully analyzed and examined to extract valuable insights and finding. s. The results showed 6 user experience scales, namely attractiveness, perspicuity, efficiency, dependability, stimulation, and novelty. The results were, on average and very good categories since mobile learning with Discord platform can foster a creative and enjoyable experience for lecturers and students. Furthermore, the study found that lecturers effectively engaged in learning interactions, assigned tasks, and fostered students' creative competence with the support of facilities and new technological equipment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creative learning is increasingly being recognised as a crucial part of children’s holistic education. In this paper, we critically explore our experiences as artist-educators working across four differing European countries, namely, England, Iceland, Germany, and Greece. These experiences of practice are set against educational policy landscapes which have progressively eroded opportunities for young people to engage in the creative arts in education across many European states. We are involved in a three-year Erasmus+ funded project, “arted,” which aims to transfer the knowledge of artists working in education to school and home contexts, offering more equitable arts opportunities for young people through the co-creation of open access resources. Combining Deleuzoguattarian theory and narrative, we examined our collective ideologies of creativity and principles of arts practices within differing national curricular policy contexts as part of our co-creation process. This rhizo-textual analysis highlighted the heterogenous features of our work as artist-educators, which have enabled us to hold spaces for creative arts learning within differing national policy contexts. These resistance spaces act as a social critique of educational policy. Through the process of this analysis three ethical principles emerged which collectively underpin our interactive guides for teachers and parents within the project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Often considered an enhancement to the learning experience, technology can also stifle creativity and higher levels of thinking. This study repositions students away from technology and back to the basics to stimulate engagement and higher levels of learning. It investigates the relationship between learning outcomes and the reflective journaling process in the context of an undergraduate marketing class in the United States. In addition, this study investigates a technique in which students are introduced to topics that are sensitive in nature, yet relevant to the real world. Although reflective journaling has been utilized in courses in areas such as educational psychology and social work, it has not been widely practiced in business courses such as marketing. Through the lens of Bloom's Taxonomy, we qualitatively analyze handwritten reflective journaling assignments about loneliness and social media to determine how the process highlights higher levels of learning. The opportunity to use handwritten journals provided a unique learning experience and a hands-on approach to allow marketing students to experience learning in a new light. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to analyze the topical problems of the digital transformation of education as a process of changing its goals, meanings, content and technologies and to find ways to solve them. The authors emphasize the primacy of pedagogical innovations and the auxiliary role of information technologies providing the technological basis for the creation and application of new pedagogical practices. The analysis of changes in the educational process in the context of the expansion of the digital educational space and the possibilities of distance technologies leads to the conclusion that the use of the traditional one-way monologue transmission of knowledge on modern digital platforms is ineffective. The paper proposes the methodology based on the self-study underpinned by the mankind achievements, the creation of student’s own system of knowledge, when he gives his meaning to the world and changes him/herself, developing his/her creative abilities. This methodology has been proven to work and tested in practice. The article presents an experience of the Belarusian State University (hereinafter – BSU) in the development and implementation of the concept of creative education, the deployment of a large-scale program for the introduction of distance technologies. The practical steps for the implementation of this program are described, such as the development of a new educational and methodological literature, the creation of an interuniversity portal “Methodology, content, and practice of creative education”, the implementation of the full-time distance training program “Technologies of heuristic education in higher education: teaching methods through discovery” and the project “Online Learning Workshop”. The main quantitative indicators of the effectiveness of the digital transformation of the educational process at BSU are analyzed. The authors describe the information infrastructure of BSU, which ensures the implementation of innovative pedagogical technologies: telecommunications infrastructure and a “cloud” data center, an educational process management system integrated with corporate systems and services, its own video conferencing system, an integrated automated information system developed by the university.

Creativity is an important ability of an individual to meet the challenges of the 21st century. For this reason, creativity development received priority attention of scholars in the field of education. This special issue collected research articles on innovative theoretical perspectives and original applications related to creative learning in authentic contexts with advanced educational technologies. We received 36 articles and 6 of them were included in this special issue after several rounds of rigorous reviews. In this editorial note, we discuss the background for the special issue and quality management. In addition, we briefly introduce each article selected for the special issue.

Creativity has been identified as a critical educational goal and an essential 21st-century skill, which can be captured through learning capabilities, thinking skills, and academic achievement. Although the relationship between creativity performance and self-directed learning (SDL) was theoretically researched, few studies have thoroughly investigated the exact nature of this association from a practical perspective. Therefore, this study aimed to design an online self-directed learning environment (OSDLE) to improve students’ creativity performance. The OSDLE was proposed with functions such as planning, learning, evaluation, and reflection, based on the three dimensions of personal attributes, process, and learning context. A quasi-experimental study was conducted in a university in Northeast China to explore the influence of the OSDLE on creativity performance. One hundred and six university students as study participants were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Participants in the experimental group learned in the OSDLE, whereas those in the control group learned in traditional classroom methods. The results indicated that the students using the OSDLE exhibited significant improvements in creativity performance. Furthermore, the SDL capabilities of the experimental group demonstrated gradual and continuous improvement. In addition, students’ thinking skills and academic achievement in the experimental group were higher than those of the control group. The main findings together are discussed in depth.

Social media spreads risk awareness about COVID-19. This study aimed to explore the experience of a college professor in incorporating media multiliteracies, reflecting teaching and learning as well as interpret how to make connections between social media and in-class activities during creations. Applying action research as the research method, twenty-three undergraduate students who took “media ethics” class participated in the study, with eight works created. The results show that students identified themes of familiar misinformation as mission, transforming them into a form of reflective creation. Students could communicate the reflective disinformation on COVID-19 through sharing of redesigned messages on social media beyond the classroom. For educators, social media might foster a participatory and creative environment that allows for exchange of information and creation of new networks and organizations, thereby providing a creative educational space for discussing topics related to disasters and pandemics. Creations involving controversial COVID-19 disinformation helped students develop critical thinking and science media literacy. Moreover, students developed the ability to apply multiliteracy in daily life and share their reflections with others. The contribution of this study shows that multiliteracies as mediums indeed helped the learners raise art-based learning skills and cross-disciplinary understanding, and the teacher and students were provided opportunities to improve their professional knowledge and competence about reflective information in a co-create process. Based on these contributions, some suggestions were proposed for further art-based cross-disciplinary education research.

This study was set out to establish if adopting problem-based learning (PBL) techniques would effectively address the teaching and learning challenges at the University of Kisubi (Unik). Using Faculty of Education as a study sample, the quasi-experimental pretest-posttest nonequivalent group design was utilized where a class of 39 students was assigned to control group (19) and experimental group (20). The pretest results revealed that the performance of the two groups did not statistically differ (p-value = 0.409 > 0.05). However, the mean scores indicate that students in the experimental group performed slightly better than their counterparts in the control group ([Formula: see text] TMI = 53 < [Formula: see text] PBL = 57.10). Although improvement was observed in both streams at the posttest level (p-value 0.0384

This article describes how a theory of musical intelligence can be applied to the teaching of music whereby musical learning is viewed as a form of problem-solving. We first introduce basic concepts and then describe the steps in a problem-solving cycle for musical learning. In particular, these steps involve recognizing the existence of a problem, defining the problem, allocating resources to the problem, mentally representing the problem, formulating a strategy to solve the problem, monitoring problem-solving, and evaluating the solution after one is done. Then, we discuss the application of these steps to analytical, creative, practical, and wisdom-based learning and performance. Finally, we draw some conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study explores whether a design activity could promote creative learning expression and development among students regarding arts and culture issues through cultural product design. Therefore, students engage in designing a cultural product model. The study aims to analyze their ability to develop arts and culture through sketches and an appearance model. The research project was conducted to observe students (aged 18-20 years) as they negotiated and shared creative ideas during the process of cultural product design, interaction with fellow students, and the design presentation. The results indicate that design activities significantly contributed to students' arts and culture learning by developing creative ideas through cultural product design. Moreover, students developed reasoning, communication, and collaboration skills during the development of their work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to reveal the creativity of teachers in creative learning in social studies subjects in grade 6 of elementary school. This research used descriptive qualitative research method. The research subjects consisted of the principal, teachers and grade 6 of elementary school students. Data collection was carried out by interviewing and observing and recording documents. Data analysis used interactive analysis, namely data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of this study indicated that; (1) the teacher has been creative in presenting learning material for the proclamation of Indonesian independence by using imaginative concepts, stimulating original ideas and works, applying variations in interaction patterns, teaching styles, and various messages, and applying direct evaluation, (2) the teacher is creative in applying the teaching method used with the application of brainstorming method and combining existing methods, (3) the teacher has been creative in developing learning media and learning resources by producing homemade media. In conclusion, creative teachers are teachers who are able to develop pedagogical abilities, life skills, increase values and build and develop professional attitudes according to the era of globalization.

An Internet-based system for testing and analyzing psychological and physiological responses during creative learning was developed using virtual instruments based on microcomputer interfaces and network communication technologies. The system can be used to study and evaluate innovative learning processes and performance at the psychological and physiological levels. This paper presents the design, implementation, and application of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Creativity is an important ability of an individual to meet the challenges of the 21st century. For this reason, creativity development received priority attention of scholars in the field of education. This special issue collected research articles on innovative theoretical perspectives and original applications related to creative learning in authentic contexts with advanced educational technologies. We received 36 articles and 6 of them were included in this special issue after several rounds of rigorous reviews. In this editorial note, we discuss the background for the special issue and quality management. In addition, we briefly introduce each article selected for the special issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers Participatory Arts and sociocultural understandings of justice and praxis through the example of Big h ART, an Australian multi-award winning provider where both artists and participants – often disenfranchised and marginalised young people – co-create the work (Matarasso, 2018). Enacting social justice principles, Big h ART works alongside young people to improve their life outcomes through arts practice strengthening young people's critical capabilities by inducting them as both makers and responders to their own lives and the world around them. Drawing on three years of ethnographic research across three sites in rural and regional Australia we highlight how multidimensional and multi-modal arts-based projects contribute to young people's lives through theorising the attributes and dimensions of twenty productive conditions and practices identified as essential for social change. These possibilities are important as when these conditions are purposefully enacted, the power of the arts for sense-making and identity development is revealed in non-formal learning spaces. Theoretically unpacking these conditions and practices and linking them with research outcomes helps build understanding of the generative power of Participatory Arts through the ways Big h ART builds bridges between young people and their communities and the developmental trajectories they may take through being 'at-promise' rather than 'at-risk'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current knowledge society, the meta-competence of Learning to learn and transversal skills are fundamental. It is therefore necessary for individuals to understand what their level of mastery of these skills is and what strategies they can implement to improve themselves. Self-awareness, creativity and digital technologies, as well as being fundamental tools for operating in the constantly changing contemporary world, are also valid support tools for the literacy and training of active and informed citizens. With this in mind, in the academic year 2019/20, a research project was carried out through using autobiographical methods and coding. The autobiographical writing formats and the multimedia products created through coding with the Scratch language have been developed during workshops in the presence and online, remotely, on a portal. Students wrote their life experiences in order to better understand them, to know the level of mastery of certain skills, what factors or events influenced their choices and creatively rethink and rework their experiences. This article reports the main results of this study, which confirm that both the autobiographical format and the use of digital technologies are useful tools for the education and training of people, especially in a lifelong learning perspective.

Purpose – Higher education institutions (HEIs) frequently overlook the importance of encouraging creative thinking in students. A review of the prevailing practices in a fully online tertiary distance education (DE) institution revealed a lack of learning activities that foster creativity. The study aims to find out whether the creative collaborative group project is a feasible, effective and acceptable learning activity for fostering creativity in students of a fully online graduate-level DE course. Design/methodology/approach – Seven groups of five to six graduate students each had five weeks to conceptualize, prepare and deliver a creative collaborative group project on lifelong learning using key concepts learned from the course. Findings – All groups submitted well-crafted creative projects within the given time frame. Reflections on their experience positively correlated with known outcomes associated with creative skills. Students valued the experience and had a better understanding of the concepts. These support the feasibility, effectiveness and acceptability of the project for fostering creativity in a fully online DE institution. Research limitations/implications – The feasibility, effectiveness and acceptability may vary in different contexts; future iterations in the same and/or other courses are recommended. Practical implications – The creative collaborative group project is a feasible, effective and acceptable strategy for fostering creativity in online distance education. Social implications – Creativity can be enhanced through appropriate online collaborative learning activities. Originality/value – The study adds to the body of literature on the use of creative collaborative group projects to foster creativity in HEIs.

An Internet-based system for testing and analyzing psychological and physiological responses during creative learning was developed using virtual instruments based on microcomputer interfaces and network communication technologies. The system can be used to study and evaluate innovative learning processes and performance at the psychological and physiological levels. This paper presents the design, implementation, and application of the system.

This article is an edited version of a Keynote Address provided for the 2021 Creativity Conference hosted by Southern Oregon University. The talk opens with the following question: “What role does our experience with uncertainty play in our creative thoughts and actions?” The remainder of the talk is focused on addressing this question, starting with the assertion that there is no creativity without uncertainty and several other operating assumptions aimed at establishing a basis for this assertion. Next, a model of creativity under uncertainty is introduced. The model outlines how encounters with uncertainty in a particular socio-cultural and historical moment can be experienced as epistemologically and ontologically destabilizing, and thereby, result in a state of genuine doubt. This state of doubt, when perceived as actionable, can open-up a horizon of new possibilities for creative activity. The model further outlines how taking creative action in the face of uncertainty can (temporarily) resolve our state of doubt and re-stabilize our experiences. Implications for inviting uncertainty into educational learning environments are also discussed.

The paper begins by drawing upon research to understand the genealogical position of dance within the school curriculum as a new 'entitlement' for all young Australians. Whilst dance is included within the Australian curriculum it has been historically marginalised as a 'soft' subject within curriculum hierarchy. This low position in the curriculum order has been questioned, with assertions that dance requires a high level of embodied intelligence not usually recognised by education systems. Ball's (1993) analytic framework for policy-making has been utilised to explore the context of influence through a genealogy of the dance curriculum; the context of policy text production through the process of writing about Dance for the Arts Shape paper in the Australian Curriculum; and the context of policy practice through a case study of pre-service teachers' lived experiences of dance in school. The findings revealed a series of complex factors which have impacted upon the implementation and practice of dance in schools including the relationship between teacher control, disciplinary power and student agency; the impact of dance competitions and their influence on the perceptions of dance; the interests of diverse faiths and cultures as well as the potential of dance to support growing interest in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture; and the twenty-first century proliferation of dance on screen via new technologies and access to highly sexualised performance are discussed. These factors prompt the need for critical approaches towards developing a more accessible and socially just dance curriculum that is culturally responsive and meaningful for diverse learners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Creative learning in computer science is necessary and important to define. • The variable creative learning in computing needs to be operationalized and measured through universal metrics and scales. • The development of creative learning in computer science does not depend entirely on the curriculum but on how it is taught. The training of creative computer professionals is considered a strategic process in different countries because it is essential for the computerization of society. This paper proposes an approach to the study of creative computer science learning for the digital transformation of modern society. The aim of the research was to evaluate the creative learning of computer science during the training of computer science professionals. An instrument derived from previous research and metrics was applied to evaluate creative learning in the two groups of terminal years of the computer engineering course at the University of Matanzas with a mixed paradigm. The quantitative analysis diagnosed that more than sixty-five percent of the students are evaluated as poor and fair in both years. The qualitative analysis revealed the inadequacies of the teaching staff in the use of computer science teaching approaches, and the four stages of formation of creative learning in computer science in the degree course: pre-university stage, basic stage, professional stage and research stage. They also revealed three key factors in the formation of creative learning in computer science: the integration of subjects, the solution of real projects, and the mainly emotional support provided by teachers and other professionals to students during their integration into the computerization of organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spatial thinking is a key asset in geography education. Thus pre-service geography teachers need to be trained in spatial thinking. Since comics seem to be a good approach to teaching geography, in our study we wanted to find out about the possibilities to teach spatial thinking with comics. How do students put their spatial thinking into practice while producing their own comics? What does this mean for the learning process? We analyzed comics, which were produced by teacher students in a mid-level university seminar for the use in the geography classroom. In the analysis of the comics produced by our students we gauged their abilities to think spatially in terms of the spatial concepts developed by Wardenga. We contextualized the visual output of the comics with a survey we conducted among the participants, which we analyzed using qualitative content analysis. We found that our students had difficulties assessing the potential of comics to teach spatial thinking in a purely verbal and theoretical way. However, in their own productions they showed high levels of creativity expressing spatial concepts. Comics produced by learners offer unique opportunities for the reflection and assessment of their ways of spatial thinking.

How might digital technologies (DTs) support creative expression and, in the process, reframe failure as a productive feature of creative learning endeavors? The purpose of this conceptual article is to provide a way of approaching this question. More specifically, the article opens with a brief discussion highlighting how DTs have the potential to support creative learning and adaptive conceptions of failure. The discussion focuses on the importance of recognizing how educators and students use technologies is more important than what particular technologies are used in support of creative endeavors. Next, the article provides an example of a particular creative curricular experience, called My Favorite Failure, which serves as a context for how educators and students can experience the positive reframing of their own and other's failures through digitally supported narratives. Considerations for how educators and students might use digital technologies to support this particular type of creative experience as well as creative learning more generally are also discussed. The article closes by outlining next steps for educators, students, and researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the authors consider how Carol Dweck's concept of growth mindset has been misconceptualised. They explore the proposition that agency is an important aspect of growth mindset and that the effects of hard work by children is reduced when agency is limited. They draw on qualitative data from 84 interviews with 23 participant children who had been designated at the end of their Year 3 as 'lower-attainers' in mathematics, English or both. They explore their experiences of this designation across the first two years of the five-year project. Their findings suggested that participants displayed ample capacity for action, curiosity, engagement and creative learning. However, classroom rules sometimes mitigated against children benefiting from these capacities. Children narrated adopting the performance orientation suggested by Dweck, which could lead to a reduced sense of competence, which itself led to less agentic classroom behaviours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Debates about what constitutes a socially just education remain a central concern in these complex times. Embodied and creative practices in schooling offer a pedagogical approach that can respond to social justice within schooling and classrooms. This paper draws on pedagogies that utilise the body and creative practices as a method for engaging students who have historically been marginalised in schools and the learning process. Transforming classroom practice through a model of engagement is explored in relation to teaching mathematics outlined through a case study involving a Creative and Body-based Learning (CBL) initiative in four classrooms across two schools. This work describes the journey of students, teachers and artists working collaboratively with CBL and how emotion, creativity and embodiment positively impacted student learning in these highly diverse and underprivileged schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This article discusses the scientific creative learning process based on language literacy. The purpose of this article is to describe how scientific-based creative learning based on language literacy can develop intelligent and creative children so that they can be in the world. Creative learning is a dynamic, fun, and creative learning so that children are directly involved through fun activities in learning. Creative learning based on language literacy can stimulate children's motivation. Implementation of creative learning based on language literacy can be done on the process of observing, asking, trying, reasoning and communicating during the learning process takes place. Keywords: Pembelajaran Kreatif, Saintifik, dan Literasi Bahasa.