episodes dedicated to
Creativity
Around the World
Our podcast collections bring together episodes focused on specific creativity and education topics, such as Creativity Around the World, which explores how educators and practitioners across the globe are fostering creativity in education. This collection features insights from guests in the Far East, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia, offering diverse perspectives on integrating creativity into classrooms, educational systems, and cultural contexts.
Featured Interviews
Creativity in Context: Mohammad Issa, Founder of the Creativity Lab in Palestine
Using Play and Imagination to Engage Active Citizenship with Zviko Kanyoka
Exposing Students to Different Cultures Expands Thinking with Joann McPike
Creativity and a Global Perspective of World Problems with Monica Kang
The Focus of Early Years Education: A Hong Kong Perspective with Dr. Alfredo Bautista
About This Collection
The Creativity Around the World collection brings together inspiring conversations with educators, researchers, and creative practitioners who are transforming education across diverse cultural and geographic contexts. Through global perspectives, we explore how creativity is understood, nurtured, and applied in classrooms and learning spaces from the Far East to Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. This collection features thought-provoking interviews with innovators like Mohammad Issa, founder of the Creativity Lab in Palestine, who shares how creativity empowers students in challenging environments; Monika Kang, who explores how cultural perspectives shape the definition and practice of creativity worldwide; Zviko Kanyoka, who advocates for active citizenship through Play Africa, using creativity to engage communities and drive social change; and Dr. Alfredo Bautista, who provides insight into early childhood education in Hong Kong, emphasizing how creative learning experiences shape young minds.
Selected Episodes
Creativity in Context: Mohammad Issa, founder of the Creativity Lab, Palestine
In this episode of Fueling Creativity, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood speak with Mohammad Issa, Founder and Director of Creativity Lab for Empowerment and Innovation. Creativity Lab is a Palestinian company that helps the next generation of innovators and change-makers use their creativity to respond to social issues and contribute effectively to build a fairer, more caring, and equal society.
Creativity and a Global Perspective of World Problems with Monica Kang
In this episode of the Fueling Creativity podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood speak with Monica Kang, Founder & CEO of InnovatorsBox, Author of Rethink Creativity & Have You Seen My Friends?, and Podcast Host of Dear Workplace and Curious Monica. She’s a creative educator who’s transforming today’s workforce with the mission to build a workplace for all by rethinking creativity.
The Challenge of Educating the Future Creative with Frances Valintine
In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood speak with Frances Valintine, Founder and CEO of The Mind Lab and Tech Futures Lab, two organizations providing learning pathways for educators and professionals to participate in and have a sustainable impact on our tech-driven future. Everything Frances does revolves around supporting people, business, and organizations to understand the impact of emerging technologies and the cultural adaptation required to embrace change and build that impact. So, how is that connected to creativity in education?
Using Play and Imagination to Engage Active Citizenship with Zviko Kanyoka
In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Zviko Kanyoka, a Project Manager for placemaking programs at Play Africa. Zviko is currently preparing to scale Play Africa’s Design Thinking with Children programs across Sub-Saharan Africa, empowering children with creative skills by encouraging active citizenship within their communities.
Integrating Creative Thinking Skills into the Curriculum with Tanya Knudsen
In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Tanya Knudsen, an educator, world traveler, polyglot, and PhD candidate for creative leadership. Tanya’s currently teaching a TIM-based curriculum, Creativity Through English, via zoom to students at Wings of Change, a vocational hospitality school and hotel social enterprise in Madagascar. She teaches for creativity with an expanded and self-designed curriculum squarely rooted in the Torrance Incubation Model (TIM) for Teaching and Learning to combine Creative Thinking Skills with subjects.
Making the Ideas of Young Children a Reality with Piet Grymonprez
In this episode of Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Piet Grymonprez, author and Co-Founder and Managing Director of MyMachine. MyMachine is a for-purpose non-profit that has a unique and multi-award-winning methodology that unites students in primary, secondary and higher education to co-create “Dream Machines” invented by children.
The focus of Early Years Education: A Hong Kong Perspective with Dr. Alfredo Bautista
In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Dr. Alfredo Bautista, an Associate Professor & Associate Head of the Department of Early Childhood Education at The Education University of Hong Kong. Alfredo is also Co-Director for the Centre for Educational and Developmental Sciences.
Exposing Students to Different Cultures Expands Thinking with Joann McPike
In this episode of Fueling Creativity in Education, Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood welcome Joann McPike, the Founder of THINK Global School, a not-for-profit, project-based, student-led traveling boarding school.
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