Prácticas pedagógicas que promueven o bloquean la creatividad en la escuela. Una descripción crítica y emocional a partir de el elemento de Ken Robinson y mi experiencia docente

Abstract

All human beings have skills and talents to be creative. Discovering and developing them to achieve personal, work or professional life, feeling happy and full of it, means to find the element. The best place to discover the element is the school, although to Ken Robinson, author of The Element (2009), it does the opposite. The article describes the various factors that have promoted or blocked creativity in Bogotá’s public school, through different stories and interviews of students, material collected during my experience as a teacher. While describing and comparing them with the thesis proposed by Robinson, I present reflections on teaching practices, policies and pedagogical models that block or promote creativity in school. I put forward some strategies to the transformation of the school- in contrast to ongoing and failed educational reforms-, approach that opens the discussion about education to creativity in academic and pedagogical circles.