Creativity and Management education:
Management education is a major tool in developing human potentials; cognitive functioning;
and constructivist creativity. Creativity is a unique gift of nature, which has inspired many
scientific inventions, artistic works, engineering adventures and productive activity (Albert
Einstein). Creative individuals are most valuable a treasured resource-cum-asset of any nation.
They are capable of making major contribution to usher in new developments almost in all fields
of human endeavor, may it be technology, science, literature, arts, social and human relations,
business etc. for the advantage of the civilization and humankind at large. Creativity, being of
utmost importance in life, it should be equally so in the system of education as well right from
pre-schools upwards, to graduate and higher levels of education.
It has been observed that the college programmes are often not geared to giving due place to
educational and environmental experiences conducive to the development of creative potential
amongst the young. This may be due to lack of awareness about the creative talent among
management students themselves as also due to inadequate understanding of the creative process
on the part of teachers, parents and elders or of difficulties in identifying and talent hunting in the
creative students or lack of knowledge of factors, which inhibit or accelerate the development of
creativity among the learners.
Moreover, in the field of education, there should be an ideal teacher-pupil, parent-children
relationship for healthy interpersonal interaction and mutual respect for individuality, personal
experiences and also for the individual differences and individual views. When students are
provided an atmosphere that allows them to think freely, creative expressions emerge which can
be translated to make maximum use of creative potential. Colleges are essential to offer an
environment where imaginative or creative training can be given to each student regardless of
their home upbringing and socio-economic circumstances to endorse originality amongst them. It
is the type of attribute that most employers look for in applicants and those education specialists
should aim to develop in students, no matter what their age. Management education providers
pride themselves in making students for the workplace, though various really fail to inspire the
attribute quality related with creativity – putting academic accomplishment primary. Thus,
management education can foster creativity through:
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Curriculum development
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Creativity across learning
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Advancing equalities
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Capacity building
Similarly, educational structures cannot be perfect in inaccessible. Wider socioeconomic and
employment conditions ultimately determine the extent to which university graduates succeed, in
tandem with their capabilities. Educational systems work if they ‘work’ where they are, in the
conditions in which they operate, and where there is receptiveness to the knowledge and skills
developed through education. Nevertheless, whilst boundaries between education, work and
everyday life have become more porous in recent decades with the development of online
education, MOOCs, and work-based-learning as typified by degree apprenticeships, most
educational systems maintain restrictions of access to education, both deliberate and inadvertent
that need to be addressed if full creative potential is to be realized.
Change itself is inevitable as it has always been but increasing speed of reaction and reform in
universities could be as risky as no change at all. In the context of uncertainty and change, nature
would suggest that diversity always proves most resilient. Greater diversity in universities might
not only be the most effective way of developing the knowledge and skills required for the
future, it could also be the most effective way of developing creativity itself.
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