Creativity Crisis: Toward a Post-Constructivist Educational Future

by Robert Nelson

In Creativity Crisis, Robert Nelson argues that university education is systematically uncreative and suggests how this might be changed. Constructive alignment, the centrepiece of today's university pedagogy, promotes mechanistic thinking and the anxious gathering of manipulative skills. Learning happens more effectively when students take their study in new directions derived from their intimate, imagined relations with the new material they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925523276
• ISBN13: 9781925523270
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Monash University Publishing
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"