OpenClass EdTech#6 - A Blueprint for Creative Educational Systems w/ Todd Lubart

Creativity is recognized as an increasingly important personal ability and societal resource. An educational system to promote the development of creative potential in students can be designed. It involves three main components. First, creative leaders, such as people in charge of school systems and school principals, who set appropriate goals. Second, creative teachers who provide role models for students, through their behavior in class activities, and openness to new ideas. Third, a climate for learning – its’ physical, cognitive, and social features can be configured to promote creativity (including creativity-relevant curricula). Measures of creative potential for students and school staff will be presented as part of the tools that can be employed in a complete approach to design creative educational systems.

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For our 6th Open Class, we will have the chance to welcome Todd Lubart, Professor of Psychology at the Université Paris Descartes, and former Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He received his PhD from Yale University and was an invited professor at the Paris School of Management (ESCP). His research focuses on creativity, its identification and development within the multivariate, investment approach, creative potential and creative giftedness, the creative process and the effect of context on creative work. He is Director of the scientific laboratory “LATI” (Laboratoire Adaptations Travail-Individu); Todd Lubart has been in charge of several research grants on creativity (including research on creative giftedness) and has organized international scientific congresses on creativity. He is author or co-author of approximately 150 scientific reports (journal papers, book chapters) on creativity, including Defying the crowd : Cultivating creativity in a culture of conformity, Psychologie de la créativité (The psychology of creativity), Enfants Exceptionnels, Rosny: Bréal) (Exceptional Children). Finally, Todd Lubart, with Maud Besançon, and Baptiste Barbot, is author of EPoC (Paris:Hogrefe), a new measure of creative potential in children and adolescents.

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This Open Class is the perfect opportunity to discuss about creativity in education and to meet with various kind of change-markers of education (students, researchers, startupers, teachers...) !

This Open Class will be followed by a Q&A session and a convivial moment for discussion and networking.

We are looking forward to meeting you,

The EdTech team