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Kreatywność jako niezbędny element kompetencji nauczyciela w edukacji alternatywnej
Creativity as the leading element of teacher competence in alternative education

Author(s): Anna Kožuh
Subject(s): School education, Educational Psychology
Published by: Oficyna Wydawnicza KA AFM
Keywords: creativity; pedagogical competence; innovation; non-standardized educational initiatives; creative student; alternative school; supervision

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article raises the issue of alternative education, which in recent years has become a thoroughly planned offer, implemented more efficiently and evaluated in greater depth. One of the basic signs of alternative education is a tendency to create a school that aims to prepare a student who solves problems in an innovative and non-stereotypical way and undertakes successful initiatives both at and outside school. The driving force behind this type of student’s activity can be, above all, extensive teacher competences, among which the leading and crucial role, according to the author of this text, is played by creativity. The author attempts to present innovative tasks assigned to the students, which have appeared repeatedly in the history of didactics, emphasizing their creative perspective and pointing as examples schools of Pestalozzi, Dewey, Montessori and Korczak, She also encourages the reader to reflect on a number of non-standardized and creative educational activities popularised in various media and currently implemented in educational practice.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 39-54
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish