__________ It is __________

Ownership of learning

Trial and error

Mistakes are OK

Mistakes are part of learning

Focus on process ( not just outcomes )

Shared control

Making, keeping and valuing the mistakes

Cross learning styles ( auditory, visual and kinaesthetic )

Problem solving

Investigating

Co - constructed - both the learner and the teacher/facilitator guide the process

A way of thinking you can practice, something you can learn, something you can get better at

A skill

A way of thinking - needs to be learnt, or maybe needs to be remembered from childhood; It may be similar to divergent thinking ( the ability to see lots of different answers - and not race to find one correct answer  ) Children start life as great divergent thinkers.

Discovering

Cyclical 

Exploration and self expression

Accepting Risk

The loosening of roles relating to control, knowledge and power
For example; experts, teachers, artists, evaluators, pupils

Within a safe structure agreed by all involved  - agreed boundaries and rules

Layered learning -
“Each angle helps to reinforce the information from another perspective and then, on top of that, students aren’t just absorbing information, they’re understanding it and then integrating it into their lives,” - Steve Goodman

A blended approach of skills training, ideas training and soft skill training

Sometimes it is self-initiated

Determining your own outcomes

Inclusive

Learning something new

A life skill

Currently ‘out of the ordinary’ and therefore ‘special’

Purposeful and useful

It sets out to do something - but you don’t know exactly what will become its outcome

Facilitated not led

Is to be mapped not measured

When teachers aren’t acting like teachers

When leaders dissolve into the group.

Learners becoming gate keepers to each others learning experiences

Intergenerational/Interracial - immersive creative learning is intrinsically about learning alongside other learners

‘Inter-anything’ - or in other words, creative learning is a great framework for disparate groups to truly work together