#fivecoreattitudes

I believe that creativity is a crucial part of education, providing children with a fundamental understanding of the arts. Creativity can help all children succeed in their academic careers, in both the arts and other academic subjects such as literacy and math. Through the five core attitudes of creativity, one can see the necessity for an arts curriculum in all schools across Australia. These are Self-Discipline about doing creative work, Naiveté or openness to experience, Risk taking, tolerance for ambiguity and group trust (Piirto, Five Core Attitudes, 2011). Each of these attitudes reflect and help students to grow as a creative person. They are also important in other aspects of schooling, providing a nice frame for classroom work in other subjects.

Teachers pedagogical methods in the classroom should be greatly influenced by these five core attitudes, and help students harness their creativity skills. Although, creativity should not remain within the classroom, and should reach the greater community including family and the neighbourhood. One great way to achieve this as a teacher is by place based learning. Please based learning can help children in more aspects in school such as science, helping students experience the environment they are learning about. In the arts, place based learning plays a large role in helping the children broaden their experiences and provide more substance for inspiration. This again links back to the importance of arts in school, and how it can help students achieve in many other aspects of schooling besides simply creativity and art.

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  Education Comission of the States. (2004). Progress pf Educational Reform: The Arta in Education. 5 (1).

  Gibson, R., & Ewing, R. (2011). Transforming the Curriculum through the Arta. South Yarra, VIC: Palgrave Macmillan.

  Greenberg, P. (2000). Why children need rituals & routines. Scholastic Parent & Child , 8 (1), 42-48.

  Gruenewald, D. A. (2003). The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place. American Educational Research Association , 32 (4).

  Mazzola, G., Park, J., & Thalmann, F. (2011). Principles of Creative Pedagogy. In G. Mazzola, J. Park, & F. Thalmann, Musical Creativity (pp. 161-167). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

  Piirto, J. (2011). Creativity for 21st century skills; how to embed creativity into the curriculum. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.