INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND CREATIVE LEARNING STYLES. INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Vasiliki Ioannidi, Konstantinos D. Malafantis

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“Creative thinking skills can be considered one of the key competencies for the twenty-first century—they allow us to remain flexible and provide us with the capacity to deal with the opportunities and challenges that are part of our complex and fast-changing world” (Ritter & Mostert, 2017). This paper concerns the research area of "Inclusive Education" and focuses on a combined approach regarding inclusivity and creativity through interdisciplinary connections. Three creative abilities that can be exercised are the ability to produce a large number of ideas, the ability to produce diverse ideas with an emphasis on solving a real or hypothetical problem and the ability to produce innovative ideas (Paraskevopoulos & Paraskevopoulou, 2009). This paper aims through a review of literature sources to highlight creative learning styles as a contemporary sustainable dynamic of inclusive education (Ioannidi & Malafantis, 2022a) and school improvement for all learning differences (Ioannidi & Malafantis, 2022b) according to WEF 2023 “Defining Education 4.0: A taxonomy for the Future of Learning”.

 

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creativity, inclusion, inclusive education, creative learning styles, creative literacy practices, innovation and creativity skills

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejlll.v7i1.445

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