Creativity and Development
Published on 2. October 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-19-514900-5 (ISBN)
Description
What is creativity, and where does it come from? Creativity and Development explores the fascinating connections and tensions between creativity research and developmental psychology, two fields that have largely progressed independently of each other-until now. In this book, scholars influential in both fields explore the emergence of new ideas, and the development of the people and situations that bring them to fruition. The uniquely collaborative nature of Oxford's Counterpoints series allows them to engage in a dialogue, addressing the key issues and potential benefits of exploring the connections between creativity and development.
Creativity and Development is based on the observation that both creativity and development are processes that occur in complex systems, in which later stages or changes emerge from the prior state of the system. In the 1970s and 1980s, creativity researchers shifted their focus from personality traits to cognitive and social processes, and the co-authors of this volume are some of the most influential figures in this shift. The central focus on system processes results in three related volume themes: how the outcomes of creativity and development emerge from dynamical processes, the interrelation between individual processes and social processes, and the role of mediating artefacts and domains in developmental and creative processes. The chapters touch on a wide range of important topics, with the authors drawing on their decades of research into creativity and development. Readers will learn about the creativity of children's play, the creative aspects of children's thinking, the creative processes of scientists, the role of education and teaching in creative development, and the role of multiple intelligences in both creativity and development. The final chapter is an important dialogue between the authors, who engage in a roundtable discussion and explore key questions facing contemporary researchers, such as: Does society suppress children's creativity? Are creativity and development specific to an intelligence or a domain? What role do social and cultural contexts play in creativity and development?
Creativity and Development presents a powerful argument that both creativity scholars and developmental psychologists will benefit by becoming more familiar with each other's work.
Creativity and Development is based on the observation that both creativity and development are processes that occur in complex systems, in which later stages or changes emerge from the prior state of the system. In the 1970s and 1980s, creativity researchers shifted their focus from personality traits to cognitive and social processes, and the co-authors of this volume are some of the most influential figures in this shift. The central focus on system processes results in three related volume themes: how the outcomes of creativity and development emerge from dynamical processes, the interrelation between individual processes and social processes, and the role of mediating artefacts and domains in developmental and creative processes. The chapters touch on a wide range of important topics, with the authors drawing on their decades of research into creativity and development. Readers will learn about the creativity of children's play, the creative aspects of children's thinking, the creative processes of scientists, the role of education and teaching in creative development, and the role of multiple intelligences in both creativity and development. The final chapter is an important dialogue between the authors, who engage in a roundtable discussion and explore key questions facing contemporary researchers, such as: Does society suppress children's creativity? Are creativity and development specific to an intelligence or a domain? What role do social and cultural contexts play in creativity and development?
Creativity and Development presents a powerful argument that both creativity scholars and developmental psychologists will benefit by becoming more familiar with each other's work.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is a wonderful accomplishment. It brings together many of today's most prominent and influential scholars in two very active areas of psychology: creativity theory and developmental theory. Their collaboration has yielded a volume filled with exciting, and often surprising insights." --James V. Wertsch, Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis"Creativity and Development displays the journey that good minds take together when concepts like creativity and development are being explored. The most vital features of the book reside in the common struggle to get their intellectual arms around a profoundly complex and extraordinarily important set of psychological ideas. It is this vitality that animates the work and that will stimulate any reader interested in the subject." -- Elliot W.
Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art, Stanford University
"Creativity and Development must be considered a welcome addition to the literature on both subjects...this volume is a stimulating collection of essays that explore the connections between creativity and development...The book deserves to be broadly read by researchers in both creativity and development. Given the reputation of the authors in the former area, I have no doubt that the volume will receive the attention it deserves."--American
Journal of Psychology
"This book is a wonderful accomplishment. It brings together many of today's most prominent and influential scholars in two very active areas of psychology: creativity theory and developmental theory. Their collaboration has yielded a volume filled with exciting, and often surprising insights." --James V. Wertsch, Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
"Creativity and Development displays the journey that good minds take together when concepts like creativity and development are being explored. The most vital features of the book reside in the common struggle to get their intellectual arms around a profoundly complex and extraordinarily important set of psychological ideas. It is this vitality that animates the work and that will stimulate any reader interested in the subject." --Elliot W.
Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art, Stanford University
"Creativity and Development must be considered a welcome addition to the literature on both subjects...this volume is a stimulating collection of essays that explore the connections between creativity and development...The book deserves to be broadly read by researchers in both creativity and development. Given the reputation of the authors in the former area, I have no doubt that the volume will receive the attention it deserves."--American
Journal of Psychology
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-514900-5 (9780195149005)
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Additional editions
R. Keith Sawyer | Vera John-Steiner | Seana Moran
Creativity and Development
E-Book
09/2003
1st Edition
OUP USA
€33.99
Available for download
R. Keith Sawyer | Vera John-Steiner | Seana Moran
Creativity and Development
E-Book
09/2003
1st Edition
OUP USA
€33.99
Available for download
Persons
(Assistant Professor of Education, Washington University, St Louis, USA)
Author
Assistant Professor of EducationAssistant Professor of Education, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Regent's Professor of EducationRegent's Professor of Education, University of New Mexico, USA
Advanced Doctoral StudentAdvanced Doctoral Student, Harvard University, USA
Professor of Psychology and EducationYale University, USAProfessor of Psychology and EducationYale University, USA
Professor of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child DevelopmentProfessor of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA
Research Director of the Quality of Life Research CenterResearch Director of the Quality of Life Research Center, Claremont Graduate University, California, USA
CS and DJ Davidson Professor of Psychology and ManagmentCS and DJ Davidson Professor of Psychology and Managment, Claremont Graduate University, California, USA
Content
1. Emergence in Creativity and Development ; 2. Creativity in the Making: Vygotsky's Contemporary Contribution to the Dialectic of Development and Creativity ; 3. The Development of Creativity as a Decision-Making Process ; 4. The Creation of Multiple-Intelligences Theory: A Study in High-Level Thinking ; 5. Creativity in Later Life ; 6. Key Issues in Creativity and Development