Creativity and risk-taking in teaching and learning settings: Insights from six international narratives - ScienceDirect
A useful concept to help interpret the significance of this creative risk-taking and exploration is “intellectual courage” which Jirout and Matthews (2022) discuss in relation to both curiosity and creativity: they define intellectual courage as “action and persistence toward gaining knowledge, understanding or new ideas or perspectives when faced with risk” (p.258, see also Movshovitz-Hadar & Kleiner, 2009). Jirout and Matthews (2022) discuss how both curiosity and creativity carry with them the risk of judgment and failure, but that teachers need to seek ways to help students acknowledge this risk and persevere with confidence towards their curious or creative goal (see also Henriksen et al., 2021). In Table 6, we illustrate how teachers used feedback to support and extend creative processes, affirm student contributions, foster a safe intellectual environment and encourage self-generated feedback. Nurturing children's creativity has been one of the primary objectives in early childh