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<p>We approach creativity in educational design with teachers working together in interdisciplinary communities of practice to develop resources for teaching and learning about climate change in formal school settings. We address climate change as a socio-scientific ‘wicked problem’ and discuss the notion of creativity in educational design in a context of transformative intervention in education leading away from silo academic domain paradigms. We perceived the resources as boundary objects during the process of communication and joint design by the diverse community members. Our interest focused on studying the boundary crossing processes which facilitated creative ideas to come out, selected and transcribed into the actual resources designed. Critical episode analysis showed that boundary crossing mechanisms were employed in the interactions among the educational designers aided by and in interaction with digital media supporting collaboration. These socio-technical interactions functioned as an empowered professional learning and working milieu, within which creative processes and outcomes were nurtured. In particular, educational designers, along with trying to frame climate change as a wicked problem, attempted to address the challenging issue of designing a creative educational resource on this topic. Our research suggests that boundary crossing creativity in interdisciplinary teams of educational designers can be an answer to not only how to focus learning on addressing the grand wicked problems of our times, but also how to deal with the multiple challenges arising from educational design per se.</p>
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We approach creativity in educational design with teachers working together in interdisciplinary communities of practice to develop resources for teaching and learning about climate change in formal school settings. We address climate change as a socio-scientific ‘wicked problem’ and discuss the notion of creativity in educational design in a context of transformative intervention in education leading away from silo academic domain paradigms. We perceived the resources as boundary objects during the process of communication and joint design by the diverse community members. Our interest focused on studying the boundary crossing processes which facilitated creative ideas to come out, selected and transcribed into the actual resources designed. Critical episode analysis showed that boundary crossing mechanisms were employed in the interactions among the educational designers aided by and in interaction with digital media supporting collaboration. These socio-technical interactions functioned as an empowered professional learning and working milieu, within which creative processes and outcomes were nurtured. In particular, educational designers, along with trying to frame climate change as a wicked problem, attempted to address the challenging issue of designing a creative educational resource on this topic. Our research suggests that boundary crossing creativity in interdisciplinary teams of educational designers can be an answer to not only how to focus learning on addressing the grand wicked problems of our times, but also how to deal with the multiple challenges arising from educational design per se.

Boundary Crossing Creativity in the Design of Digital Resources for Teaching and Learning about Climate Change

Dept. of Educational Studies, School of Philosophy

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications

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We approach creativity in educational design with teachers working together in interdisciplinary communities of practice to develop resources for teaching and...

Boundary Crossing Creativity in the Design of Digital Resources for Teaching and Learning about Climate Change

Published Online: Aug 30, 2021

Page range: 213 - 235

Received: May 10, 2021

Accepted: Jul 05, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2021-0013

Keywords
boundary crossing, creativity, education, resource design, digital media, socio-technical environments, climate change

© 2021 Chronis Kynigos et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Boundary Crossing Creativity in the Design of Digital Resources for Teaching and Learning about Climate Change

Published Online: Aug 30, 2021

Page range: 213 - 235

Received: May 10, 2021

Accepted: Jul 05, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2021-0013

Keywordsboundary crossing, creativity, education, resource design, digital media, socio-technical environments, climate change

© 2021 Chronis Kynigos et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
boundary crossing, creativity, education, resource design, digital media, socio-technical environments, climate change