In Creativity
Crisis Robert Nelson argues that university education is systematically
uncreative and suggests how this might be changed. Constructive alignment, the
centrepiece of today’s university pedagogy, promotes mechanistic thinking and
the anxious gathering of manipulative skills. Learning happens more effectively
when students take their study in new directions derived from their intimate,
imagined relations with the new material they are encountering. Richly steeped
in the history of ideas, from ancient Greece to the present, this book
radically revises the concept of student-centredness, explores the language
that encourages creativity, and helps teachers cultivate imaginative
enthusiasm. Creativity Crisis is essential reading for those concerned
with the nature and quality of instruction at university level.
‘This
book is one of a kind. Robert’s purpose is to arrive at a creative new vision,
where education is less constrained, less instrumentalist, more encouraging and
open to the imagination.’ - Professor David Boud, Director, Centre For Research In Assessment And
Digital Learning, Deakin University, Melbourne.
