Abstract
As an educational researcher, my interest in creativity comes from the need to offer novel solutions to cogent problems in educational settings. In 2007 I spent two years in Israel working with special needs learners to develop their critical thinking skills through the Feuerstein methods. There I learnt the importance of mediation, that is a quality of human relationship that fosters human cognitive modifiability. During my PhD I was influenced by Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and the importance given to dialectics and remediation to find collective and creative solutions to historically developing problems affecting organizations. My PhD work devises a model of sociocultural workshop for enterprise education. In it, vocational students undertaking work experience discuss the problems that the participation in two different activity systems (school and work) imply and find solutions that are then implemented. During my post-doc I used the Change Laboratory, a toolkit for innovation and social practices, for entrepreneurship education. Vocational teachers discuss the problems affecting their course, comprising the dramatic fall of new enrolment students, dig into the problems to find the roots of their problem, and find solutions and implement them, thus innovating their didactics.