Amba Press author: Dr Tim Patston

Dr Tim Patston is Australia’s leading expert in helping schools, TAFE and universities integrate pragmatic creativity into teaching and learning. His evidence-based framework of creativity was recognised as one of the top ten education innovations in Victoria by the HundrEd organisation in Finland. He works across the education sector, with organisations, individual educators and policy makers. He teaches in the education faculties at three Australian universities, and conducts workshops internationally. He is a featured expert in the documentary Finding Creativity and for Adobe Education. His cutting-edge research has over 1200 citations on Google Scholar and 28,000 reads on Researchgate. His publications, the Indigenous Astronomy Starwheel and Creative Actions – Embedding Creative Competencies into Every Classroom, are used widely across the education sector.

The Indigenous Astronomy Starwheel is a rich educational resource, featuring a map of the night sky as perceived by a range of First Nations Peoples, text of the Indigenous Knowledges, Indigenous artwork and recordings of the stories by an Indigenous Elder. Dr Patston works with education providers to integrate indigenous knowledges into existing curricula. His website is creativeactions.com.au