Creativity Education in India: Breaking Barriers

Title

Creativity Education in India: Breaking Barriers

Creator

Madan A.

Description

Classrooms in India are posed with challenges of rigid curriculum demands, lack of resources, large class sizes and very often low motivation levels among teachers. Add to that poor teacher training facilities. Given the constraints, the pursuit of encouraging creativity education in the Indian schooling system seems like a tall order. The aim of this chapter is to explore the scope for creative learning and expression in Indian classrooms. The purpose is also to search for education models that facilitate and encourage creativity amongst children by adapting the curriculum to their advantage and operate within the constraints imposed by systemic drawbacks. The chapter searches for a coherent, pragmatic definition of creativity among practitioners and pedagogues with the rationale of identifying workable solutions for dissemination of creativity education in Indian classrooms. The methodology entails conversations and interviews with teachers, curriculum planners and pedagogues representing different education models and schooling systems in India. A case-study design approach is assumed to present programs that are successfully implementing practices which encourage creativity learning among their students. An attempt is made to highlight the philosophical beliefs that underlie adoption of such practices as well as to document the challenges and demands that such an endeavour imposes on the system. The chapter therefore, provides an optimistic view of the future of out of the box learning not only in the Indian classrooms but also makes a case for all education systems stifled by curriculum constraints and lack of resources. Inter-Disciplinary Press 2012.

Source

Creative Engagements with Children: International Perspectives and Contexts, pp. 25-32.

Date

2020-01-01

Publisher

Brill

Subject

Constraints; Creativity; curriculum; education system; india; pedagogy; systemic rigidities

Coverage

Madan A., The Christ University, Bangalore, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-184888127-3; 978-900440339-0

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848881273_004

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