Do you consider visual art can promote or encourage creativity in ways that may not be possible in other curriculum areas?

No

No-one chose No!

Maybe

"I think that the same creative or expansive thinking skills that visual artists use can be applied to any subject e.g. Da Vinci"

"Of course the visual arts can encourage creativity. However, it does not belong only to visual arts - or the arts. Edcuators need a change in thinking - all subject areas should be able to promote creativity. We all teach literacy!"

"The arts provide a playfulness that is difficult (but not impossible) to strike in other areas of the curriculum. They tend to make it more accessible, although without reflective practice and an attentive eye, the value might be lost. The arts are more of a less intimidating medium for trying out new ideas. However problem solving, synthesis, and evaluation are transdisciplinary."

"Creative visual is just a peer to creative social, creative financial, creative technology, creative music, creative performance, creative biological etc. All have their own ethos, mores etc"

YES

"For many students it is a 'way in' as they are able to succeed and then transfer these skills. the approach is more likely to develop connected thinking, metaphorical thinking, design thinking and many other important attributes for C21"

"As it is, I think the opportunity is there more readily for visual art is not as data and testing focused as other subject areas. Other teachers need to be encouraged to deliver and encourage creativity just as much as the students do."

"creativity is linked to problem solving when students are given the ability to learn how to think outside the square. Also creative thinking gives students confidence and promotes self esteem that extends to other areas of the school curriculum."

"Recently attended pl by Paul Banford and Paul Gorman on CCE creative habits of the mind. Been reflecting on the perhaps increase in interest in creativity and am aware of all the different definitions and terms associated with creativity and am at the stage of trying to organise my thoughts about creativity ... Curriculum content and process, creative thinking, creative pedagogues, assessing in creativity to continue creativity ..........."

"Open ended exploration with no one right answer is found in arts education. It takes a lot of effort to convince students this is ok. Also, online reporting designed around ,lock step processes' does not accommodate the diversity and individuality of student driven arts work"

"although creativity is not the solely the purview of art education, it is our core business and we do know a lot about it - we are in fact the experts in this"

"The solution to Visual arts problems can often be individualised. It is one of the few areas of education where 20 students can provide 20 different solutions and all of them can be suitable and correct. No other area offers that amount of creativity or individuality."

"Visual activity which is non-verbal develops other pathways in the brain creating different linkages for problem solving."

"Art allows students that struggle academically to be creative."

"There are similarities in creative thinking in science and art, for example, but there are also differences. Each has unique qualities that need to be included in curriculum."

"Our world is increasingly visual, so teaching Visual Literacy is essential."

"It underpins All Visual Arts learning"

"Most generalist have not done art since year 8, and then get 6 weeks during pre service training. What hope have they got to insure and inform. They are scared of art and transfer they to students"

"Although it should not be the exclusive preview of the arts any more than literacy is limited to English or numeracy to Math"

"Visual arts education encourages creative thinking, problem solving and collaboration"

"embodied, sensual ways of knowing and being"

"Students are directed to create according to structures in writing, reading, etc... Art allows for students to learn in a variety of ways and feel accepted for being different and therefor more confident to approach other tasks and skills"

"risk taking, experimentation, capacity to accept failure, to learn through error, through practice...to think beyond the square/laterally etc etc."

"The importance of the senses, specifically sight in thinking. The Visual Arts teach embodied thinking in relation to sight, seeing the world and representing it. For example the process of drawing is an example of thinking through sight. Visual art teaches the manipualtion of this understanding through creative processes. Other subjects touch on simalr processes, though not is the same depth, for example science requires observation in scientific processes."

"The visual arts allows for a different and unique way of understanding the world - no right and wrong answers, allow for experimenting and exploration"

"VA can provide a different view for students to understand maths, science and literacy - a plus for those that struggle in those areas"

"Would be exciting!"

""The arts allow us to express what is important, but what cannot be captured with words". Howard Gardner."

"It can provide activities that focus on individual creativity and personal expression not limited by being directed to other purposes"

"There are so many ways that creativity can be taught through the visual arts. The skills learned are difficult to achieve in any other curriculum area."

"Creativity in Visual Arts is unique to the discipline. It is explored, developed and sustained using specific knowledge and skills that differs from other areas of the curriculum. There are some aspects that do cross over into other learning areas but like any discipline the knowledge and skills that lead to creativity are specialised to the visual arts discipline."

"The Arts all require participation and a practical physicality that supports the intellectual problem solving and empathetic learners."

"Absolutely. For many students visual and/or performing arts give them a voice and a preferred mode of communication. In high school Visual Arts there is a constant need for problem solving , critical thinking and the environment in which lessons take place is often on that stimulates creativity and excites the imagination. This is not always the case though in primary schools with non-specialist Art teachers and few resources/training who get students to make carbon-copy 'artworks' or who don't have a special creative space for students to work in."

"Provides a variety of means of expression and thinking which move beyond documenting it verbally. Greater scope of expression."

"My students have often remarked how they have to engage their brains because answers have to be created not googled"

"Conceptual development is a key aspect of art learning"

"Children can embody information and learning through art-making that may not be possible through other modalities."

"Art can add things in to most other subjects and in our primary school I often add in to other curriculum areas. Primary schools are crucial places for switching kids on to art. BY Middle school it os often too late, they have switched off or have had an expereinceof failure and will not try any more."

"I think the hands on and experimental engagement with different materials and media encourage students to see different possibiilities. There is also and opportunity in examining the Visual Arts both 2 and 3D to give students insights that engage and allow them to continue to be curious and develop their own ideas."

"I see creativity as a form of practical knowledge, a mtter of practice, rather than some elusive mystical talent. This is not how art educators commonly regard it and it does have the potential to be seen as some kind of vague idea. Art educators need to develop a stringer account of creativity that posiotns it as a form of knowing and practice that can be taught or at least nurtured."

"Creativity is the foundation of all quality arts education practice. The Arts have always been a platform for the generation of ideas which cover the reach of human experience and build a dialogue between artist and audience in unexpected ways and infinite directions. This expansive practice which encapsulates and includes all perspectives through its engagement with personal narrative is not possible in other areas of the Curriculum, English is the only other area that would even come close to providing the opportunities for expression and expansive thinking."

"Creativity is a way of thinking. It can be enhanced or restricted purely by the way subjects are introduced. If students are creativie in visual art, then they othen can in other curric. areas."