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The SEED Framework for Cultivating Creativity

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Creativity is an essential resource for fueling the future. As educators think about innovation and progress, they must also examine long-held assumptions and narratives about creativity. Too often innovative educational experiences favor young people from more privileged backgrounds and lack diversity of perspective and context. This entry offers a new pedagogical framework for developing creativity in a more collaborative, distributed, and equitable way. The SEED Framework for Cultivating Creativity is a paradigm intentionally designed to incorporate inclusivity and justice as considerations in the creative classroom. Building on contemporary creativity research, the SEED framework offers a practical and replicable process for ideation across a wide variety of environments and situations. The framework is built around four core pathways for creative thinkers to explore; (1) Social interactions, (2) life Experiences, (3) Environmental influences, and (4) Discoveries, that...

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  • Clapp, E. P. (2017). Participatory creativity: Introducing access and equity to the creative classroom. New York: Routledge.

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  1. Hawken School, Gates Mills, OH, USA

    Jodie L. Ricci

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  1. WMIER, The University of Waikato WMIER, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

    Michael A. Peters

  2. Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Richard Heraud

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  1. Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward P. Clapp

  2. University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

    Janine de Novais

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Ricci, J.L. (2020). The SEED Framework for Cultivating Creativity. In: Peters, M., Heraud, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2262-4_106-1

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