The Creative Classroom: The Role of Space and Place Toward Facilitating Creativity

摘要

Writing to an international audience of design educators, Hutchinson (2005) expressed her anxiety regarding recent changes occurring in technology education by stating:rnI've become increasingly concerned about the direction that technology education is taking in the U.S. Contextual problems are valuable, but the range of appropriate contexts is narrow. Working with materials is good, but some materials are more acceptable than others. Creativity is not an important value, (p. 16)rnThis assessment may be an important warning to the profession about the nature of the values we embrace, in particular the value placed on creativity.