Crushing ICE: Short-on-Theory, Long-on-Practical Approaches to Imagination Creativity Education

21st-century educators face a new frontier beyond the boundaries of traditional teaching practice and pedagogical praxis. Imagination Creativity Education (ICE) creates fresh opportunities for teachers who are committed to genuine, empowering, experiential learning. In Crushing ICE: Short-on-Theoretical, Long-on-Practical Approaches to Imagination Creativity Education, teachers will discover how to: - take risks and transition with confidence from conventional to imaginative and creative approaches - promote collaborative learning - enrich the efficacy, esteem, and identity of learners - implement learning-centred strategies, activities, and practices informed by diverse theoretical perspectives - advance meaningful inquiry and relational learning that engages learners at a deep level Every day, teachers-confronted with student exceptionalities, multi-age groupings, overemphasis on provincial standardized testing, and intransigent administrative practices and directives-struggle to promote curiosity, imagination, creativity, innovation, creative process, and risk-taking in their classrooms. ICE teaches a practical, alternative approach that recognizes the importance of these constructs within the self as teacher, the other as learner, and all together in a community of learnership. An exposition of ICE, Crushing ICE shows educators how to challenge the status quo enroute to fostering innovative learning in regular courses, visual-arts, performing arts, and educational transitions. This book is an instructional resource text focused on pre-service and in-service teachers for creativity-based education. Crushing ICE is a unique compilation of scholarly yet practical writings by nationally and internationally recognized teachers and teacher educators who present a predominantly pan-Canadian perspective. It can equally serve as a supplementary text or core text in university courses.

About the Author :
Dr. Blaine E. Hatt, a professor at the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, is a lifelong educator at all levels of education and a three-time award-winner for outstanding teaching. Dr. Hatt has taught an undergraduate course in Imagination Creativity Education (ICE) and a graduate course in Creativity and Education for many years. Dr. Hatt has presented on ICE at learned conferences (both national and international) for the past 15 years and offered in-service teacher professional development workshops in ICE for a decade. Dr. Hatt has recently completed a three-year appointment as anglophone co-editor of Canadian Journal of Education (CJE) and has been a peer-reviewer for several national and international journals throughout his university teacher education career. He co-authored and co-edited The Paths We Chose: Stories from Accredited Teachers About their Professional and Personal Paths After Certification (2017); Assessment, Evaluation, and Communication of Student Learning (2016); The Complexity of Hiring, Supporting, and Retaining New Teachers Across Canada (2015); and When the Interview is Not Enough: A Multi-stage High Impact Process for Hiring New Teachers (2014). He wrote Heart in Teaching: Attending the Pathic, published in 2009. He co-edited a 2018‒19 special issue of the American Journal of Educational Research (AJER) on teacher hiring. In 1983, he edited Easterly: 60 Atlantic Writers, a Canadian grade 12 literature textbook for New Brunswick and Newfoundland Labrador. Dr. Hatt lives with his wife, Pierrette, in Corbeil, Ontario. They have a blended family that includes eight children and 18 grandchildren.