Systemic barriers—rigid curricula, limited teacher training, and innate-creativity misconceptions—marginalize creativity in mainstream education¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Rigid standardized curricula, limited teacher training in creative pedagogy, and misconceptions that creativity is innate or gifted-only contribute to creativity's marginalization in practice. → Gu 2026

Evidence¶

Gu 2026¶

Gu, X., Ritter, S. M., Frossard, F., van den Boom, L., Delfmann, L. R. & Barajas, M. (2026). Fostering creativity in formal schooling: A systematic review of explicit and implicit interventions for young learners. Educational Research Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2026.100784

q2 · i? · review · r2

The review's narrative account of barriers to integrating creativity into mainstream education, citing Bereczki & Kárpáti and Davies et al. It states these constraints 'contribute to its marginalization in practice'. This is an interpretive synthesis, not a tested result; no effect sizes are printed.

"Constraints such as rigid, standardized curricula, limited teacher training in creative pedagogy, and misconceptions that creativity is innate or relevant only for the gifted, contribute to its marginalization in practice"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Creativity — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Explicit creativity training programs are effective in fostering creativity in formal schooling — related
• Early training produces neural and physiological adaptations that can be misattributed to innate talent — related
• After training, better professional vision and reasoning are correlated with more learning-centered conception changes and fewer misconceptions — related
• Historical increases in peak performance contradict fixed innate upper limits — related
• Fixed degree structures struggle to keep pace with evolving knowledge, leading to program proliferation with marginal differentiation — related