Some old ideas can become very new. This is the case of the notion of
creativity in psychology. Traditionally conceptualized in the narrow
framework of the amazing things poets, composers, painters, and
scientists do, creativity research had reached an impassé in its
efforts to locate creativity within the confines of personality
characteristics. This is the time for change. The New Look at
creativity that is rooted within the sociocultural tradition in
psychology and elaborated in the present book finds creativity in each
and every moment of our everyday lives. We are creative when we move
around in the streets, dance tango, fool around with our self-images
while shopping for clothes, or resist pre-given recipes while cooking
dinners. We are being creative even in our bedrooms where we perform
the difficult tasks of falling asleep or waking up through arrays of
sleep inducers and alarm clocks, not to speak of the time we spend in
the very state of sleep. All our actions at night—ranging from what
we later call nightmares--or dreams—are arenas of creativity even if
we may barely remember what we have done. The present monograph by
Lene Tanggaard constitutes a powerful multi-pronged exposition of the
New Look at Creativity. Its starting point is in the move to pay
attention to the processes of acting in everyday life—rather than
start from the classification of products of human actions into
classes of “creative” versus “non-creative.”
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Creative Learning Pathways
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ISBN
9781806612895
Publisert
2026
Utgiver
Emerald Publishing Ltd.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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