Developing Students’ “mini-c” Creativity through Inquiry

Abstract

In 2007, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association, unveiled the Standards for the 21st-Century Learner to foster high expectations for today‘s learners. The purposes of this paper are to explore as well as operationalize the constructs of creativity to develop students‘ creative potential through inquiry. This paper introduces the potential of the AASL Standards to foster student creativity. Starko‘s contributions to developing the creative potential of children
within a constraining educational milieu are presented.