ABSTRACT
Helping children be creative becomes a contribution towards desirable futures. When design and technology adopts this holistic approach to creativity education, it is fulfilling its role as a powerful and unique form of education and as a key contributor to general education. Educational challenge is the fostering of the individual's creativity – whether that is a matter of confidence-building, evocative questioning, playing games or harnessing mischievous minds. The significance of creativity to the individual, to their identity and to their personal development is so important – not least because creativity can be understood as an aspect of consciousness, of expressing one's being. Creativity always has an intentional orientation – towards the future – whether that future is the immediacy of thought or a distant outcome. The value judgements that are forever arising in creative designing are interwoven with ideas of good-bad, better-worse and the consideration of alternatives.
