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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483632903321

Autore

Harris Anne M

Titolo

The Creative Turn [[electronic resource] ] : Toward a New Aesthetic Imaginary / / by Anne M. Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rotterdam : , : SensePublishers : , : Imprint : SensePublishers, , 2014

ISBN

94-6209-551-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Advances in Creativity and Giftedness ; ; 6

Disciplina

371.102

Soggetti

Education

Education, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Building Creative Capital -- The Creative Turn in Educational Discourse -- Young Playwrights’ Ink -- Deaducation -- Ethics ‘Versus’ Aesthetics -- Aesthetic Politics and Creative Pathways -- Aesthetics and Innovation -- Animating Culture Or -- Creative Industries Or Creative Imaginaries? -- Our Creative Century -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The conundrum of understanding, practising and teaching contemporary creativity is that it wants to be all things to all people. Almost all modern lists of creativity, creative thinking and how-to ‘becoming creative’ books begin with one premise: the creative individual/artist is not special, rather each of us is creative in a special way and these skills can – and must - be nurtured. Increasingly, industry and education leaders are claiming that creativity is the core skill to take us into a prosperous future, signalling the democratisation of creativity as industry. Yet centuries of association between aesthetics, mastery and creativity are hard to dismantle. These days, it is increasingly difficult to discuss creativity without reference to business, industry and innovation. Why do we love to think of creativity in this way and no longer as that rare visitation of the muse or the elite gift of the few? This book looks at the possibility that creativity is taking a turn, what that turn might be, and how it relates to industry, education and, ultimately, cultural role of creativity and aesthetics for the 21st century. In proliferating discourses of the commodification of



creativity, there is one thing all the experts agree on: creativity is undefinable, possibly unteachable, largely unassessable, and becoming the most valuable commodity in 21st-century markets.