Handbook of Research on Creativity
Contributors: Chan, J.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing; Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 583
ISBN-13: 9780857939814
Subjects: Creative ability; Creative thinking; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; SCIENCE / Cognitive Science
Description: This comprehensive yet concise Handbook provides an overview of innovative approaches to, and new perspectives on, the study of creativity. In this timely work, creativity is not defined by an ideal, rather it encompasses a range of theories, functions, characteristics, processes, products and practices that are associated with the generation of novel and useful outcomes suited to particular social, cultural and political contexts. Chapters present original research by international scholars from a wide range of disciplines including history, sociology, psychology, philosophy, cultural studies.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction to the chapters; PART I RESEARCH ON CREATIVITY; 1. Researching creativity and creativity research; 2. Sources and conditions of scientific creativity; 3. Presences and absences: a critical analysis of recent research about creativity in visual arts education; PART II WAYS OF CONCEPTUALIZING AND ASSESSING CREATIVITY; 4. What is a creative idea? Little-c versus Big-C creativity; 5. Creativity as a system in action; 6. Marxism and creativity; title: 7. Creativity as designer capitalism: Deleuze|Guattarian interventions8. Playing to the gallery: myth, method and complexity in the creative process; 9. Attributing creativity in science and engineering: the discourses of discovery, invention and breakthrough; 10. For a critical creativity: the radical imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis; 11. Creativity in schools: delusions, realities and challenges; 12. The lived experience of a contemporary creative identification; 13. Understanding malevolent creativity; 14. Rating the creativity of products; title: 15. Issues in conceptions of creativity and creativity assessment in music education16. From 'national creativity' to social recognition and success in the visual arts: a sociological perspective on rankings of the 'top 100 artists in the world'; PART III THE CREATIVE PROCESS; 17. Creative thinking: processes, strategies and knowledge; 18. Time and the composition: creativity in modern and contemporary works of art; 19. Experimental research in the digital media arts; 20. The chances of chance; title: challenging creativity by chance and collaboration; title: 21. The role of inhibition and perception in artistic creativity: a cognitive explanationPART IV PRACTICES OF CREATIVITY; 22. The ontology of creative performance and the aesthetics of design; 23. How to start an art centre; 24. The 'illusio' of the creative life: case studies of emerging artists; 25. Making a living from creativity: careers, employment and work in the creative industries; 26. Authorship and collaborative creativity in new media art; 27. Dochaku: artistic evolution at the confluence of cultures; 28. Re-creating performance art: the rise of re-enactment; title: PART V CONDITIONS FOR CREATIVITY29. Creative encounters and collaborative agency in science, technology and innovation; 30. What's stopping us? Barriers to creativity and innovation in schooling across Europe; 31. Copyright as an incentive system for creativity? The case of contemporary visual arts; PART VI LEADING/MANAGING CREATIVITY; 32. European cultural policies and the 'creative industries' turn; 33. How to get the most creativity and innovation out of groups and teams; 34. Creativity in R&D; 35. Leading science: the role of research leaders in scientific creativity; Index