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Second International ConferenceSUSTAINABLE MULTILINGUALISM

Reseach, studies, culture

Vytautas Magnus University27-28 September, 2013

Kaunas(Lithuania)


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Tao for creative teachers orteaching languages with a green hat

an a clown nose

by Miquel Puertas,Lecturer

http://mpuertas.blogspot.com
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Pablo Picasso said that allchildren are artists. The problem

is how to remain an artist once

they grow up. According to the

genial painter the formaleducation kills the creativity of

children. Then the less creative

people should be probably the

teachers and educators. In fact

this amusing and somehowprovocative idea of Picasso has

been studied from various

scientific theories and

philosophical doctrines.


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Picture taken from a wall in Kaunas...

maybe it's true!


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Do not exist stupidideas only narrow-

minded people!!


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What is creativity?How to measure it?

-Lateral thinking and creativity(Edward De Bono)

-The Memphis manifesto

-The bohemian-gay index (RichardFlorida)


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The lateral thinking

Edward de Bono model on creativity


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Memphismanifesto.com


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The Memphis manifesto

1) Cultivate and reward creativity. Everyone is part of the value chain of creativity. Creativitycan happen at any time, anywhere and its happening in your community right now. Payattention

2) Invest in the creative ecosystem. The creative ecosystem can include arts and culture,nightlife, the music scene, restaurants, artists and designers, innovators, entrepeneurs,affordable spaces, lively neighborhoods, spirituality, education, density, public spaces and thirdplaces.

3) Embrance diversity. It gives birth to creativity, innovation and positive economic impact.People of different backgrounds and experiences contribute a diversity of ideas expressions,talents and perspectives that enrich communities. This is how ideas flourish and build vitalcommunities.

4) Nurture the creatives. Support the connectors. Collaborate to compete in new way and geteveryone in the game.

5) Value risk-taking. Convert a no climate into yes climate. Invest in opportunity-making not

just problem-solving. Tap into the creative talent, technology and energy for your community.Challenge conventional wisdom.


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The Memphis manifesto 6) Be authentic. Identify the value you add and focus on those assets where you6) Be authentic. Identify the value you add and focus on those assets where you

can be unique. Dare to be different, not simply the look-alike of another community.can be unique. Dare to be different, not simply the look-alike of another community.Resist monoculture and homogeneity. Every community can be the rightResist monoculture and homogeneity. Every community can be the rightcommunity.community.

7) Invest in and build of quality of place. While inherited features such as climate,

natural resources and population are important, other critical features such as artsand culture, open and green spaces, vibrant downtowns and centers of learningcan be built and strenghened. This will make communities more competitive thanever because it will create more opportunities than ever for ideas to have andimpact.

8) Remove barriers to creativity, such mediocrity, intolerance, disconnectedness,sprawl, poverty, bad schools, exclusivity and social and enviromental degradation.

9) Take responsability for change in your community. Improvise. Make thingshappen. Development is a do it yourself enterprise.

10) Ensure that every person, especially children, has the right to creativity. Thehighest quality lifelong education is critical to developing and retaining creativeindividuals as a resource for communities


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Creative class and bohemian-gay

index by Richard Florida


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The linear equation of innovation

Innovation= 1+ 2density + 3 creativity + 4creativity * density + 5 R&D+ 6 Sciencists +

7 bohemians + 8 gays

(Florida, Knudsen, Gates & Stolarick, 2007)


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S d I t ti l C f


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The bohemian-gay index

Boheminan Gay Index and housing values by

Richard Florida

S d I t ti l C f


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The bohemian-gay index

Distribution of creative people among 8 European

countries. (study by Fritsch and Boschma, 2007)


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All my students are artists!

Second International Conference


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"He who learns teaches, he who teaches learn" African proverb


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Reflection about a horizontal axis. TEACH reflects to become LEARN

S d I t ti l C f


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Tao for creative teachers by Lao-Tzu A man is born gentle and weak; at his death

he is hard and stiff. All things, including thegrass and trees, are soft and pliable in life;

dry and brittle in death. Stiffness is thus acompanion of death; flexibility a companionof life. An army that cannot yield will bedefeated. A tree that cannot bend will crackin the wind. The hard and stiff will be broken;

the soft and supple will prevail.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with asingle step


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Tao for creative teachers by Lao-Tzu When you are content to be simply

yourself and don't compare or

compete, everybody will respectyou.

I have just three things to teach:simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatesttreasures.

Anticipate the difficult by managing

the easy.


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Tao for creative teachers by Lao-TzuTo realize that you do notunderstand is a virtue; Not to realize

that you do not understand is adefect.

Be the chief but never the lord.

The wicked leader is he who thepeople despise. The good leader ishe who the people revere. The greatleader is he who the people say, 'Wedid it ourselves.'


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Some tips: Teaching is like riding a bicycle. You

learn by doing.

"Ask and it will be given to you; seekand you will find, knock and it will beopened to you (Saint Mathew 7:7)

Good writer writes. Mediocre writerteaches literature.

Good teachers learn from their students.Bad teachers indoctrinate.


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Thank you!

Gracias!Aciu!

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