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Author Mcwilliam, Erica

Title The Creative Workforce : How to Launch Young People into High-Flying Futures
Published Sydney : University of NSW Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages)
Contents Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Creativity is everyone's business; The Yuk/Wow Generation; The creative workforce; Education: important and irrelevant; Teacher: sage, guide, meddler; Raising the bar on risk and challenge; Flying higher; Measuring up; Over the horizon; Notes; Index
Summary Creativity has become the economic engine of the 21st century. No longer the preserve of creative industries, 'creative capital' in the form of novel thinking, navigation, interactivity and border-crossing has become crucial to success and productivity. But are young people being equipped for a work future in which creativity is the defining feature of economic life? In this important book, Erica McWilliam argues that young peoples creative capacities are not being properly developed and that education, particularly in Australia, demands a massive pedagogical shift. Using both Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Creative ability in business.
Education -- Curricula -- Australia
Teaching -- Australia
Creative ability -- Australia
Creative ability in business -- Australia
Creative ability.
Creative ability in business.
Education -- Curricula.
Teaching.
Australia.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781742230498
1742230490