I’ve just finished reading “The Homework Myth” by Alfie Kohn (2006) and found a few sections that are associated with creativity.
\n– on page 111, math is identified as a “creative enterprise” where students should be challenged to invent solutions to “unfamiliar problems” and understand how and why each other’s solutions work as a comparison.
\n– on page 169, it is suggested that homework may be excessive and therefore out of reach of many students from the get go. Punitive measures as a result of being put in this impossible position discourages students from wanting to take responsibility for learning.
\n– on page 178, there is a discussion about choice. “The best teachers know that children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.” The section also points out that students have the instinct to detect whether work is thoughtlessly assigned and therefore not really worth doing.
\n– on page 181, the author concludes that “this shift is associated with intellectual benefits: Kids are freed up to do more stuff that matters, that stirs their thinking,that both flow from and stimulates their interests, when homework doesn’t get in the way.”
\nThis is an extension on the thought that schools stifle youth creativity. The school goes even as far as outside of actual school hours to ensure that youth do not get the opportunity to be creative (on their own) by (a) consuming what should be free time, (b) demoralizing students to the point where they mainly anticipate judgement, failure and punishment, and (c) burdening the student with perceptibly low quality tasks. For our YCISL program, we need to make it absolutely clear that they are to take charge and they can choose to pursue their creativity in their chosen context (even school) with ample free time in a no risk situation where they take responsibility for the quality of tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve just finished reading “The Homework Myth” by Alfie Kohn (2006) and found a few sections that are associated with creativity. – on page 111, math is identified as a “creative enterprise” where students should be challenged to invent solutions to “unfamiliar problems” and understand how and why each other’s solutions work as a comparison. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}