Abstract of Educational Enterprise

Innovation And Creativity In Educational Enterprise

Where creativity is defined as a derivative of freedom, playing with ideas, refraining from the judgement of people in a climate of challenge and high goals, innovation is defined as applied creativity. Creativity and innovation may be regarded as two siblings who play in the school yard together. They acquire skills for an ever expanding globalized market place.They learn that to be successful means to be creative and innovative in order to allure diverse customers to the market. Thus our future education would better take a way towards a symbiosis of creative and innovative knowledge and information.

Our aim under the above title is to draw a poststudent picture through a philosophical symbiosis of knowledge and information: A student who smartly adapts the Platonic phrase ‘Know Thyself’ into its popular variety ‘Inform Yourself’ to be creative and innovative.

We use brainstorming as a method to clarify our views. Our examples are somehow fictional while we try to draw the picture of a symbiotic student in between modern and postmodern tendencies experienced in the problematics of education. We endeavour to base the creative and innovative knowledge and information on the philosophies of British, American, French, Asian, Latin thinkers. 

Among many categories of educational research, ours can fit into The Educational Philosophy. Our method is also a literary quest which borrows some fictional figures of worldly known writers such as Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelly, Robert Musil, and last but not the least, our contemporary writer Hasan Ali Toptaş. Rather than finding an absolute solution for the ongoing problem of education, we attempt to adapt the idea of symbiosis, which we borrowed from Kisho Kurokawa, to the creation of a symbiotic student who stands for the reconciliation of knowledge and information.

Ours may pass as an humouristic essay on our digitalized existence which can be elegantly summarized as ‘we are our memex.’ Our boss is creative and innovative information technologies which use knowledge as their recruit. If we are allowed to make a joke on this, we are doomed to be lifelong learners in order to survive in this era of communication which may be called as well, a type of cultural industry where there is always the danger of producing individuals in the service of business world. In a way they are creative and innovative slaves perfected by education. Future studies may further delve into drawing that slave student portrait in minutest details.

Ayten Suvak

AS - An Unusual Clash . . .

AS - An Avarage Clash

I fell in love with his voice
Without seeing his face
Every morning he was on the air
Flying right through my ear
A radio DJ's sonorous voice
Dripped into my heart
With the curious effect of the running water
Which builds the Turkish saying:
'Nothing matches with the sound of music
Made by water coins and woman'
And by man
My own addition to the whole damn phrase...

Ayten Suvak

AS - Holiday is over...

Holiday is over
Vagabonds are bonding-
To school

Love is over
Hearts are bonding
To nowhere..

Ayten Suvak

AS - S k y . . .

S atellites fill it
K ind hearts fill it
Y ou unload it...


Ayten Suvak

S e p t e m b e r . . .

On the fifteenth

Year's neglected

Ayten was born

The day's worn

Like a fall's leaf

She's perpetually

Celebrating her teen

Evergreen...

Ayten Suvak

Writing

W hat have you done

R ight

I n your life

T ell me light

I gnoble is fllight

N one in the darkness

G ives me a chance to write with delight . . .

Ayten Suvak