Article Review

Title Of Article: The Art of Creative Teaching Implications for Higher Education

To: Dr Johan@Eddy Luaran

Submitted by: Thahirah Abd Rahman2013165903

1. Overview

This article is about a study the value of creative teaching in the twenty-first century to solve problem of

social, political and economic especially for higher education. In educational context, creativity as an area of

educational research has grown with a number of educators and researchers suggesting strategies to fostered

creativity and to discuss factors of may be obstruct or even block creative behaviours in classroom.

Based on current issues, the higher education has been criticised for ignored important of creativity rather than

fostering it, researcher and educators try to exploring the advocating nature of creativity and argue for the value

of creative teaching if they hope to graduate the future leaders of twenty-first century society

To strength their arguments, the researcher propose that it runs counter to many of the dominant influences in

current higher education learning. Over the past 50 years, their understanding of it has grown through systematic

study. Prior to this, only 0.2% of all entries in Psychological abstracts pertained to creativity. Since the

researcher have observed and analysed creativity in the subjects ranging from eminent scholars and artists to

young children and even painting elephants (Florida 2002)

According to the article, the educators should responsible of producing creative future leaders with an

increasing focus on teaching quality and developments especially in the technologies used for communicating

and disseminating information. On the creative process as a mode of being, thinking and knowing individual

basis is academics need to consider the use of partnerships or learning teams who can work collaboratively on

the assessment task. Bourner and Flowers (1997) state that the time when academics in higher education could

simply replicate the teaching methods that they experienced as students is quickly drawing to an end.

According to the author, the finding to this study, process of creative teaching is typified by experimentation,

trial and error, seemingly ever-more effort is put into planning new activities and assessment tasks, and most of

all by creativity but the possibilities are unlimited.

2. A description of the methodology

The research was held at University of Sydney, Australia, which is student of Undergraduate and

Preservice Programs, Faculty of Education and Social Work taken as experimental to observe and

analyse the value of creative teaching implications of higher education.

Purpose to this study was to exploring the subversive nature of creativity and argue for the value of

creative teaching as opposed to transmissive pedagogy and provided a number of creative mechanisms

tertiary institutions should consider if they hope to graduate the future leaders of twenty-first century

society.

The observations and analyst from differences reading and creativity in subjects ranging from eminent

scholars and artists to young children and even painting elephants and devised various tests to measure

it in those exceptional individuals with the 'appropriate’ personality traits.

The data collected of observed and analysed from reading and some from eminent scholars and artists

to young children shown the decreased the level of creativity

3. Evaluation

The author has succeeded to explained about what is definition art of creative teaching, strategies and

the important of being creative as educator should be more responsibility maintains has and will

continue to shape deep and profound shifts in the way we work, in our values, and in every aspect of

our lives.

The data presented by observation is enough to proves creativity teaching is very important to

universities and colleagues by fostering creativity in our students, besides that, educators should learn

about our own teaching and ultimately become more creative teachers.

The study is too simple with just observed and analysed from reading can give more information but

it's should be more interesting if has a survey from students or teachers.

The methods used by author is just observed should find more suitable method, such as survey,

experimental or interview maybe we can get differences explanation and knowledge about creative

teachings.

In my opinion, creative teaching is interesting topic that has different perceptions and explanations with

experiences from students or teachers because the possibilities are unlimited.

4. Discussion of implication of the study

According to the author, there is a tension between the intellectual concerns of universities and colleges

and the development of skills with which to meet the economic needs of society that creativity is often

omitted from these debates. Yet by fostering creativity in our students, we learn about our own

teaching and ultimately become more creative teachers

I am strongly agreed with this statement, Creativity involves the ability to create meaningful, new

forms. It ‘uncovers, selects, re-shuffles, combines and synthesises already existing facts, ideas,

faculties and skills’ (Koestler 1964, 120). But it also requires self-assurance and the ability to take

risks. Boden (1990) in The Creative Mind argues that creativity: involves not only a passionate interest

but self-confidence too. A personneeds a healthy self-respect to pursue novel ideas and to [ultimately]

make mistakes; despite the criticism from others. (255)

Based on current issues, the higher education has been criticised for ignored important of creativity

rather than fostering it, researcher and educators try to exploring the advocating nature of creativity and

argue for the value of creative teaching if they hope to graduate the future leaders of twenty-first

century society

In my opinion, the author should provides more observation from reading and maybe try to survey

students to know details about creativity in higher education institutions hope to produce individuals

who will succeed in our complex and rapidly changing world, valued and acknowledged as the key to

our future