Multiplicity, the Tenth Strategy

Enhancing Career‐readiness Skills through Creativity in Teaching and Learning

“…Integrating creativity intentionally into our curricula and pedagogy allows us to more explicitly connect skills with deep, transferable learning. The benefits of infusing creativity into pedagogical approaches allows students to solve complex problems (critical thinking), understand and assess the multiplicity (see Sweet et al, 2021) of ways to approach an issue and identify solutions. It is a way of thinking and approaching the thinking process.…”

Multiplicity as a Strategy for Teaching Creativity in Career‐and Self‐Development

“…Building on the previous installment of the Creativity Café, this essay focuses on how educators can apply the creative strategy of multiplicity to one NACE competency, career‐ and self‐development, to help students develop the related skills needed for success. Multiplicity, as Sweet, Blythe, and Carpenter (2021) have discussed, is a creative approach that encourages people to explore as many possibilities to a problem as one can (p. 7). In addition, multiplicity provides instructors and administrators with a pedagogical approach for incorporating new experiences into classrooms, academic learning spaces, and experiential learning environments where career‐ and self‐development skills are cultivated.…”