Nurturing Creative Mindsets in Schools with Dorte Nielsen

by | Nov 7, 2024 | Season 9

Dorte Nielsen
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How might we cultivate a creative mindset in our classrooms?

In this episode of the Fueling Creativity in Education Podcast, join hosts Dr. Cyndi Burnett and Dr. Matthew Worwood as they delve into transforming educational settings to foster creativity with special guest, Dorte Nielsen. Dorte is the founder of Creative Thinker and the Center for Creative Thinking in Copenhagen, with an impressive background in advertising and education. She has authored 10 books and has been a driving force behind integrating creative thinking into primary school curricula. Through her work, Dorte has introduced innovative programs that encourage creative thinking across all subjects and age groups.

Throughout this insightful conversation, Dorte shares her observations of how traditional educational environments often lack the support needed for creative minds to thrive. She highlights the successes of her initiatives—such as improved student engagement, reduced absenteeism, and enhanced classroom dynamics. Dorte discusses the importance of fostering an open-ended, growth-oriented mindset and provides actionable tips for educators, emphasizing the need to celebrate diverse thinking styles. This episode brings to light the transformative power of creativity in education, offering valuable takeaways for teachers, administrators, and anyone passionate about nurturing creativity in the classroom.

The Secret of the Highly Creative Thinker
Little Creative Thinker’s Exercise Book

If you show the children, this is the robot, let’s build one. They all built one exactly like that because they don’t want to make mistakes, they don’t want to fail, they don’t want to get it wrong. So once you start celebrating this mindset, suddenly you realize, wow, I can do this, I can do that. And suddenly they can start to play both with their imagination, but also coming up with new visions and new thoughts for what might be. And that gives. I mean, that’s building the little personality in a completely different way to what we’ve seen.

Dorte Nielsen

Dorte is the founder of Creative Thinker and the Center for Creative Thinking in Copenhagen. She has dedicated her life to helping others become better creative thinkers. After her advertising career in London, she has been teaching and researching creativity. She founded a bachelor degree program for conceptual thinkers and made it one of the most award-winning creative bachelors programs in the world. After her success in training creativity at the university level, Dorte took her uniquely effective creativity curriculum to primary schools. Dorte Nielsen is the author of 10 books, 3 games and thinking tools. Her books are published in 11 languages and are sold in 65 countries.

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