Razmišljanja o kreativnom obrazovanju u 21. stoljeću
Reflections on Creative Education in the 21st Century

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author presents his reflections on education in the 21st century and the necessity to adapt the education process (from education plans and programmes to transfer and testing of knowledge) to requirements of time and space, possible future needs and professions for which we have not invented a name yet. In other words, this work represent a reflection on creativity in education, based on a fact that creativity in formal education system is no longer a luxury but desperately needed. These reflectiolsshall highlight the importance of pushing the cretaivity from the margins of formal education to its very centre. In the regard, the author directs his attention towards clarification of several elements and segments of education process, aimed at defining of the concept of creativity, moving it from the area of mystery, coincidences and individual genius to the definitional field that is subject to scientific analysis. Furthermore, he analyses to which extent a creative capacity can be considered as an economic driver, and not as art or hobby, and examines a new theory of learning and its implications for formal education, pointing out both possibilities and traps in the preparation of young people for the future.

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