Collaboration Can Promote Students' Creativity

Creativity makes life more enjoyable and successful, both for students and people generally. The complex elements of society require that people be creative in order to guide humanity forward. Thus, educators often strive to promote creativity among their students and themselves. The present paper offers a broad definition of creativity and then examines how cooperation can increase creativity, in education and other endeavours. Next, the paper looks at how people can cooperate to promote their mutual creativity and success. In particular, the paper draws on the literature on cooperative learning, with the last part section of the paper describing six cooperative learning techniques that can boost students' creativity.