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Mapping the Gap: Using Growth Opportunity Items and Principles as well as Design Thinking to Eliminate the Creative Achievement Gap

Burns, Mikaila Marie
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408964827

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2014, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Industrial, Interior Visual Communication Design.
The Skills Gap is a disconnect in the skills that students have acquired throughout their education, and the skills that businesses are seeking from potential employees. The Creativity Crisis is the documented phenomenon where young children test at genius levels of creativity, but by adulthood, lose most of their creative capacity. Until now, these two ideas have been considered separate circumstances, but what if they are part of a bigger problem…of a Creative Achievement Gap? While students continue to lose creativity, businesses demand innovative, creative thinkers. Design Thinking can help to bridge the gap. Using existing research and literature, I have uncovered five separate Growth Opportunities that will help to align the goals of K–12 education, business, and learners (of any age). These Growth Opportunities are Skills, Character, Mindset, Values, and Community. Items in each individual Growth Opportunity have been communicated by authors from many different backgrounds, and writings about a variety of topics (education, business, design, thinking, creativity, etc). In the end, I will propose a list of “Shared Principles for Stakeholder Alignment” which are the Growth Opportunity items that I’ve interpreted as actionable principles that can be used to align all stakeholder groups—students, parents, teachers, workers, businesses, and learners of any age. By doing so, we can effectively address the Creative Achievement Gap.
Paul Nini (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders Sanders, PhD (Committee Member)
David Staley, PhD (Committee Member)
163 p.
Business Community; Design; Education
Skills Gap, Creativity Crisis, Creativity, Education, Design Thinking, Design, Creative Process, Design Process, Growth Opportunity, Growth Opportunities

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  • Burns, M. M. (2014). Mapping the Gap: Using Growth Opportunity Items and Principles as well as Design Thinking to Eliminate the Creative Achievement Gap [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408964827

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Burns, Mikaila. Mapping the Gap: Using Growth Opportunity Items and Principles as well as Design Thinking to Eliminate the Creative Achievement Gap. 2014. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408964827.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Burns, Mikaila. "Mapping the Gap: Using Growth Opportunity Items and Principles as well as Design Thinking to Eliminate the Creative Achievement Gap." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408964827

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