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- Title: Discussion Article: Disciplinary Boundaries for Creativity (Report)
- Author : Creative Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 220 KB
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Introduction Although creativity in education was a concern that began in the 1950's (Craft, 2001a), this concern has become a highly topical issue over the past fifteen or so years. Recently in the United Kingdom there have been many conferences and meetings on creativity and education with input from museums and the arts and examples include the British Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group 'Creativity in Education', the Economic and Social Research Council's Creativity in Education Seminar Series, the National Advisory Committee for Creative and Cultural Education (NACCCE) and the plethora of books and articles on the subject. In all this interest, however, there is a tendency to promote creativity in terms of the creation of novel or innovative ideas that are independent of the teaching and the content of the formal academic disciplines such as mathematics, science, history and art. This paper argues the claim that the vast majority of humankind is capable of truly creative acts, not merely in the sense of novel ideas but also in the sense of transforming the very disciplines themselves. This is indeed a very bold and paradoxical claim because it states that what is normally attributed as acts of genius can also be attributed to nearly every learner. It is within this context that the further paradox between having to think within the constraints of the discipline and thinking creatively by rethinking those constraints is explored. This article's main concern is that if we ignore creativity in the sense of Boden's transformation of the subject matter of the disciplines then we will fail to unlock the creative potential of the child.
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