ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns provoking and nurturing creativity in oneself and children. Starting with a personal encounter with creativity, it will lead one to use their own experience to plan the conditions for creativity in school. The chapter poses provocative questions and opportunities to plan creative and connected learning for one's classes. It discusses making physical changes like seating arrangements, wall displays and outdoor learning as well how to recognise, nurture, celebrate and develop creativity in every child. The chapter introduces and explains the inter-disciplinary cross-curricular learning, an approach designed to stimulate creativity. The examples of inter-disciplinary methods and interactive tables help one define, recognise and plan for creativity. Creativity keeps us moving forward. Rudolf Steiner and Dewey, and later Herbert Read, saw it as a liberating and humanising force. Everyone is an artist of some kind whose special abilities, even if almost insignificant, must be encouraged as contributing to an infinite richness of collective life.
