ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the initiatives to introduce or expand the teaching of creativity and innovation across different sectors and levels of education and training in Australia over approximately the last thirty years. This includes an exploration of motives and methods used to achieve a more creative citizenry. These explorations are informed by the parallel and apparently contradictory efforts to improve the standards of education and training through the introduction of various forms of standardization and assessment protocols that require highly specified learning outcomes across sectors. The chapter concludes with a summary of recent emerging research into new forms of assessment that appear to provide resolution of the tensions between accountability and creativity.
