Teaching Creativity
Multi-Mode Transitional Practices
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 2009
216 pages
978-1-4411-5656-3 (ISBN)
Description
This study is concerned with creativity in education - especially in arts education (broadly conceived to include the visual arts, music, and creative writing). It takes as its starting point Nietzsche's view that works of art do not appear "as if by magic".
Using insights from philosophy, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, the book examines the creative processes of many artists in different media, showing how art works often result from processes of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction that may be long and laborious. Pigrum demonstrates how teachers and their students in all sectors of education may gain from a better, systematic, understanding of such processes.
Using insights from philosophy, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, the book examines the creative processes of many artists in different media, showing how art works often result from processes of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction that may be long and laborious. Pigrum demonstrates how teachers and their students in all sectors of education may gain from a better, systematic, understanding of such processes.
Reviews / Votes
'The book is a profound work of research in which Pigrum systematically leads the reader through the covert and overt stages of the creative process, looking deep into its philosophical, psychological, cultural, and circumstantial aspects. [...] Teaching Creativity is a scholarly, reflective book that is rich, intense, condensed, and at the same time seems to be written with a remarkably free hand and spirit.' - Studies in Gestalt Therapy, 2009More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
30
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-5656-3 (9781441156563)
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Persons
Derek Pigrum is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK. He is an active member of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. Anthony Haynes is former Chair of the English Association schools committee, former faculty co-ordinator and mentor of PGCE students and NQTs.
Content
Introduction
1. The Sign Modes
2. The Operational Modes
3. The Modes of Place
4. But Can We Teach It
1. The Sign Modes
2. The Operational Modes
3. The Modes of Place
4. But Can We Teach It
