Teaching Creativity

Multi-mode Transitional Practices

Dr Derek Pigrum author Anthony Haynes editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation

Published:5th Jan '12

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A study devoted to creativity in arts education and in particular visual arts, music, and creative writing.

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.

'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, 2009

ISBN: 9781441117892

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 314g

216 pages

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