Abstract
After witnessing creativity in China's test-centric culture, the author calls for developing learners' creativity as a global proficiency emanating from a belief in one's capacity to create.
Acknowledgments
As part of a 2015 Fulbright Scholarship for conducting research in China, this work was supported by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, and Council for International Exchange of Scholars (grant #6219). Another funding source was the Global Issues Initiative Research Support Program of Virginia Tech's Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment.
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Carol A. Mullen
Carol A. Mullen is Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Tech, twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, and winner of the 2016 Jay D. Scribner Mentoring Award from the University Council for Educational Administration. She is editor of Creativity Under Duress in Education? (Springer, 2019) and author of Creativity and Education in China (Routledge, 2017). Email: [email protected]