Creatividad y educación para el desarrollo y ciudadanía global en los currículos españoles de educación obligatoria

Abstract

Education for Development and Global Citizenship (EpDCG) adopts the use of creativity and, in particular, creative thinking as a fundamental methodology for transformative action. This study confirms the presence of the creative thinking methodology in the current Spanish Compulsory Education curricula and the changes introduced by Organic Law 3/2020. The documentary methodology used starts from the analysis of the key concept (creativity) and the root derived words. The analysis, which is developed from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective, notices a discontinuous presence of creativity and creative thinking in the curricula of Spanish compulsory education, both in core and specific subjects. By way of conclusion, Spanish educational policies consider creativity a basic element in the transformation of educational action in both the primary and secondary stages, further appreciating its importance from the Organic Law 3/2020, so it is considered essential to review the skills absent in terms of creativity in some specific areas of the curriculum for a correct implementation of Education for Development and Global Citizenship at the levels of specificity of center and classroom.