The creative turn : toward a new aesthetic imaginary /
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 speci...
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands :
SensePublishers,
2014.
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| Series: | Advances in creativity and giftedness ;
v. 6. |
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Table of Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE FOR READERS; INTRODUCTION: BUILDING CREATIVE CAPITAL; DON'T I KNOW YOU ...?; THE IMAGINARY; Beauty Sticks Like Glue; THE ARTS AND CREATIVITY: A 20TH-CENTURY MARRIAGE?; Creativity and Aesthetics in the 21St Century; A NEW CREATIVE IMAGINARY; An Invitation; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 1: THE CREATIVE TURN IN EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE: Reality or Rhetoric?; INTRODUCTION; The F Word (Failure); On Daydreaming; On Provoking; On Brainstorming; On Commemorating; The C Word (The 'Creative' Turn); 'THE AURA OF THE LIFE BANAL, THE ART OF COOL'
- Conclusion (The Fetishisation of Performance)REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2: YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS' INK; INTRODUCTION; Early Days; PROFILE #1
- MADELEINE GEORGE (SWEETBITTER BABY, 1993; THE MOST MASSIVE WOMAN WINS, 1994); PROFILE #2
- ANNE HARRIS (IN THE GARDEN, 1984); PROFILE #4: TISH DURKIN (FIXED UP, 1984); Creative Pedagogies, Creative Possibilities; RECOMMENDATIONS, THEN AND NOW; NOTES; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3: DEADUCATION: Why Schools Need to Change; INTRODUCTION; DEAD(LY) THEATRE AND THE FUNCTION OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION; Deadly Education and the Economic Imperative.
- Productive Risk-Taking as Good BusinessProductive Risk-Taking as Good Education; SLOW EDUCATION; In Pursuit of Inertia and Creative Leaps in Learning; The State of Play in Schools; Resuscitate to Educate?; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4: ETHICS 'VERSUS' AESTHETICS: Best Frenemies?; INTRODUCTION; Instrumentalising Ourselves Out af a Practice; Characteristics of the Rhizome; The Rhizome: Lines are Flight, Words are Weapons; Creativity as Becoming; The Ethics of Creativity as Innovation; An Ethics of Researcher as Subject; Ethics, Aesthetics, Or a Doctrine of Creativity; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.
- CHAPTER 5: AESTHETIC POLITICS AND CREATIVE PATHWAYSINTRODUCTION; Aesthetics and Creative Research; CASE STUDY #1; 'Sailing Into Uni!' and the Intersection of Health Promotion, Education and Creative Arts; Self; Context; Behaviours; Some Voices from the Community; CASE STUDY #2; Culture Shack and the Politics of Aesthetics; Real Power of Creative Pedagogies?; What Way Forward?; NOTES; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6: AESTHETICS AND INNOVATION; INTRODUCTION; The Performativity of Aesthetics; Creativity and Innovation in Education: Useful or Just Assessable?; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.
- CHAPTER 7: ANIMATING CULTURE OR: Where has all the Magic Gone?INTRODUCTION; Queer Works of Art in a New Age; Cult Value Versus Exhibition Value: Everyone's 15 Minutes of Fame?; The Commodification of Difference; WHAT'S IN A NAME? A CASE STUDY; The QPOCalypse; CASE STUDY OVERVIEW; Is it Possible to 'Teach' Diversities?; Themes; Recommendations; Top 10 Arts Projects Recommended By the Participants; ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF POLITICAL ART AND RITUAL PRACTICE; Earlier Turns; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8: CREATIVE INDUSTRIES OR CREATIVE IMAGINARIES?; INTRODUCTION.