Editorial - Creativity Special Issue

The Learning and Teaching Academy and the Centre for Living Sustainability at the University of the Highlands and Islands hosted an online Festival of Creativity, ‘Creativity in the Classroom’, in April 2024. Participants were invited to consider how creative pedagogies and practice can enhance student engagement through curriculum and activity design; how creative pedagogies impact on learners’ creative thinking; and how creative community learning approaches can inform pedagogies. Some of those presentations formed the basis for the articles included in this special issue of JPAAP, with others submitted in response to a call for papers following the festival. The editorial introduces the articles and areas of thematic focus including decentralisation, multi-disciplinarity, collaboration and inclusivity.