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Creative Learning For Challenging Times: The Promise And Peril Of Risk, Michele M. Welkener
Creative Learning For Challenging Times: The Promise And Peril Of Risk, Michele M. Welkener
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We are in an unprecedented time when it comes to the world’s complexity—never has the need been greater for students to be prepared to think for themselves and act creatively to solve perplexing problems. As an artist, faculty member and administrator in higher education, faculty developer, and researcher of creativity in college students, I am passionate about creating environments where students can exercise such skills. In the art culture, risk, experimentation, exploration, and even failure are expected routes that lead to finding one’s own style, voice, and signature statement. My awareness of these expectations first began to intensify as I …