Creative Provocations: Speculations on the Future of Creativity, Technology & Learning (Creativity Theory and Action in Education)

This book explores the complex, yet critical, relationship between technology and creativity, specifically in educational contexts. Creativity is important for success in today’s rapidly changing, radically contingent and hyperconnected world. This is even more relevant in the context of teaching and learning―where the psychological, sociological and cultural aspects of human learning confront the challenges of a rapidly changing, technologically saturated world.

Written by some of the foremost thinkers and researchers in the area of creativity and/or technology, the chapters in this volume examine the impact of recent and future technologies on creativity, teaching and learning. Individually and collectively, they help us develop an understanding of this nexus of creativity and technology for education. They offer new perspectives on this rapidly evolving future―exploring issues, paradoxes, tensions, and points of interest for creativity and technology. They position these issues in ways that consider implications for thinking, learning, teaching, and education in general.

​Danah Henriksen is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University, in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Her research interests focus on topics related to creativity and technology in educational contexts (including other intersections of creativity with topics such as mindfulness or design thinking). Her work has been presented at conferences such as AERA, SITE, and CPED, and published in peer-reviewed journals such as Teachers College Record, Thinking Skills and Creativity, and Educational Technology & Society, as well as practitioner venues like Educational Leadership, Kappan, and Art Education Journal.

Dr. Henriksen has served as a working group leader at EDUsummIT―a UNESCO global consortium of leaders in policy, practice, and scholarship in education. She is an Associate Editor at Educational Policy Analysis Archives journal and has guest-edited special issues of journals such as: the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, TechTrends journal, and Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. Dr. Henriksen is the prior Co-Chair of the Creativity SIG for the Society of Information Technology in Education, and the current Co-Chair of the Dissertation in Practice SIG with the Carnegie Project in the Education Doctorate. She has taught or developed varied courses in educational psychology, innovation and leadership, research methods, design thinking, and teacher education, across higher education contexts―including undergraduate, Masters, and doctoral courses, in online, hybrid/blended, and face-to-face mediums (both on-campus and overseas/study abroad).