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Creativity in Schools in Europe: A survey of Teachers.

This brochure provides the preliminary results of an online survey of around 10,000 teachers. from the 27 Member States of the European Union, about their opinions concerning creativity in schools, as a contribution to the 2009 European Year of Creativity and Innovation.

Teachers in Europe believe that creativity is a fundamental competence to be developed at school and that Information and Communication Technologies can enhance creativity. An overwhelming majority of teachers also believe that creativity can be applied to every domain of knowledge and to every school subject. However, even when a big majority of teachers believe everyone can be creative, and that creativity is not solely a characteristic of eminent people, the conditions for favouring creativity are not always available in schools in Europe.

The aim of the survey has been to understand how teachers in Europe frame and conceptualise creativity and to collect information on the support they receive and need to foster students’ creativity.

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