ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the central role that creativity, and the arts more broadly, can play in inclusive education. It explores to encourage inclusion and empower individuals in a broad range of informal learning contexts. The chapter also explores in more detail what makes the arts and creativity so effective in inclusive practice, and the particular skills that can be developed when thinking and acting like an artist. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explored ideas about the 'flow' of creativity. Many high-profile professionals working in the arts and the wider creative sector today are aware of this danger and the powerful position that a certain level of cultural capitalcan put them in. Artists, in whatever art form or media they employ, are encouraging the viewer or participant to engage in the 'making of meaning', to make connections with one's own lived experience and create personal understanding.
