African creative futures: mainstreaming creativity in the South African skills ecosystem
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hall, Martin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Arendse, Beth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T11:36:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-12T11:36:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2025-11-12T11:33:58Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Creative future skills will be essential for Africa and South Africa, driving economic development, innovation capacity, and the ability to respond to the evolving socio political environments of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) era. This study explores opportunities for developing creativity and creative thinking, key future skills, within South Africa's current 4IR planning. Using an exploratory qualitative approach, the research examines how creativity is experienced and understood, alongside the social and cultural factors influencing creative thinking, through three distinct lenses: educators, skills ecosystem managers, and youth. The study aims to understand how creativity is experienced, taught, and implemented and its wider application within South Africa's skills ecosystem, in the context of ongoing 4IR planning. It investigates the current approaches to creative education in South Africa and identifies key social and cultural factors shared by South African educators, skills ecosystem managers and youth that can guide the implementation of creative education. Furthermore, it seeks to demonstrate potential reforms in creative education through an appropriate praxis model. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Arendse, B. (2025). <i>African creative futures: mainstreaming creativity in the South African skills ecosystem</i>. (). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Graduate School of Business (GSB). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42194 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Arendse, Beth. <i>"African creative futures: mainstreaming creativity in the South African skills ecosystem."</i> ., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Graduate School of Business (GSB), 2025. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42194 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Arendse, B. 2025. African creative futures: mainstreaming creativity in the South African skills ecosystem. . University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Graduate School of Business (GSB). http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42194 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Arendse, Beth AB - Creative future skills will be essential for Africa and South Africa, driving economic development, innovation capacity, and the ability to respond to the evolving socio political environments of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) era. This study explores opportunities for developing creativity and creative thinking, key future skills, within South Africa's current 4IR planning. Using an exploratory qualitative approach, the research examines how creativity is experienced and understood, alongside the social and cultural factors influencing creative thinking, through three distinct lenses: educators, skills ecosystem managers, and youth. The study aims to understand how creativity is experienced, taught, and implemented and its wider application within South Africa's skills ecosystem, in the context of ongoing 4IR planning. It investigates the current approaches to creative education in South Africa and identifies key social and cultural factors shared by South African educators, skills ecosystem managers and youth that can guide the implementation of creative education. Furthermore, it seeks to demonstrate potential reforms in creative education through an appropriate praxis model. DA - 2025 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Creative thinking KW - Innovation KW - Fourth Industrial Revolution KW - South Africa KW - Future skills KW - Education reform LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2025 T1 - African creative futures: mainstreaming creativity in the South African skills ecosystem TI - African creative futures: mainstreaming creativity in the South African skills ecosystem UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42194 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42194 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Arendse B. African creative futures: mainstreaming creativity in the South African skills ecosystem. []. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Graduate School of Business (GSB), 2025 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42194 | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Graduate School of Business (GSB) | |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Commerce | |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.subject | Creative thinking | |
| dc.subject | Innovation | |
| dc.subject | Fourth Industrial Revolution | |
| dc.subject | South Africa | |
| dc.subject | Future skills | |
| dc.subject | Education reform | |
| dc.title | African creative futures: mainstreaming creativity in the South African skills ecosystem | |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Masters | |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | MPhil |