ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the contribution of some 20th and 21st century educationalists with an interest in cross-curricular and creative approaches. A sample of the characters that influenced the constructivist educational philosophies is introduced. The chapter represents some challengers of constructivism, as are those that championed wider, more inclusive interpretations of intelligence, creativity and learning. Dewey's ideas carried powerfully over into the 20th century. They affected British education legislation via the UK's Hadow Report. Hadow's famous claim that, "The curriculum is to be thought of in terms of activity and experience rather than knowledge to be acquired and facts to be stored" influenced cross-curricular thinking throughout the century. The educators and movements of the 20th and 21st centuries have emphasised the importance of developing a range of mindsets to fulfil the purposes of education.
