Creative University : Contemporary Responses to the Changing Role of the University

The concept behind the Creative University is about knowledge cultures, critical creative thinking and innovative learning processes, situating the university as flexible, open and responsive to contemporary educational ideologies. Its vision reflects world-wide interest in students’ engagement with diverse knowledges that challenge and break with habitual actions and thought and elevates creativity as central to the design of new and innovative pedagogies. In The Creative University: Contemporary Responses to the Changing Role of the University, leading authors position the university to inviting exploratory constructions and approaches that respond to past, present and future social and educational tensions and developments. This volume is a provocation for discovery, fostering and critiquing creativity, and advancing innovation.

Birthe Lund, Ph.D., Asssociate Professor, Department of Education, Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focus is design and evaluation of creative and innovative learning processes in education, as well as philosophy of education.

Sonja Arndt, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Sonja’s research is aligned with the Centre for Global Studies and the Early Years Research Centre, and intersects initial teacher education and philosophy of and in education.