Creativity = Success
Imagination Stage has long known that the arts work with the body, voice, mind and imagination in such a way that students benefit at home, in school, or on the stage. In fact, students find success long term no matter what career choices they make.
Whether you're reading Richard Florida's RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS or Daniel Pink's A WHOLE NEW MIND, the writing is on the wall -- creativity will drive the future of our economy, society, and personal lives.
For example, this morning I was reading an article about a Washington DC-based researcher working across the country to explore how creativity will affect the economy. "Forty percent of new jobs in the next 15 years will require skills that our current work force does not have . . . We need workers with basic skills and the ability to be creative . . ." (read full article at: http://newsok.com/work-force-researcher-to-explore-how-creativity-will-affect-economy/article/3285948/?tm=1219200109)
Those of us who have worked for years in arts management know that creative thinking solves problems much faster than old, industrial age models. And, creative thinking is fueled through arts training and exposure from an early age (more articles and data support this, available through Champions of Change published by the Department of Education or Americans for the Arts - www.americansforthearts.org).
Change may be hard, but at least the change to the 'conceptual age' promises to be creative and fun.
Brett
Whether you're reading Richard Florida's RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS or Daniel Pink's A WHOLE NEW MIND, the writing is on the wall -- creativity will drive the future of our economy, society, and personal lives.
For example, this morning I was reading an article about a Washington DC-based researcher working across the country to explore how creativity will affect the economy. "Forty percent of new jobs in the next 15 years will require skills that our current work force does not have . . . We need workers with basic skills and the ability to be creative . . ." (read full article at: http://newsok.com/work-force-researcher-to-explore-how-creativity-will-affect-economy/article/3285948/?tm=1219200109)
Those of us who have worked for years in arts management know that creative thinking solves problems much faster than old, industrial age models. And, creative thinking is fueled through arts training and exposure from an early age (more articles and data support this, available through Champions of Change published by the Department of Education or Americans for the Arts - www.americansforthearts.org).
Change may be hard, but at least the change to the 'conceptual age' promises to be creative and fun.
Brett
Labels: arts education
posted by Imagination Stage at
8:59 AM
1 Comments:
Creativity does equal success. People who work in education are having a great debate about creativity and it's place in education. Art, music, dance, and drama all allow students to express their creativity, but we have not been very good about embedding creativity into the learning.
Part of the problem is that as we prepare students for a world that seemingly changes every 5 years, and ready them for jobs that don't yet exist, we do so from an organizational model that hasn't essentially changed in over a hundred years.
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