Creativity and Development
R. Keith Sawyer, Vera John-Steiner, Seana Moran, Robert J Sternberg, David Henry Feldman, Jeanne Nakamura, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Abstract
This book explores the connections and tensions between creativity research and developmental psychology, two fields that have largely progressed independently of each other until now. Scholars in psychology investigated the emergence of new ideas, and the development of people and situations that bring them to completion. Findings are 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 stat ... More
This book explores the connections and tensions between creativity research and developmental psychology, two fields that have largely progressed independently of each other until now. Scholars in psychology investigated the emergence of new ideas, and the development of people and situations that bring them to completion. Findings are 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 influential figures in this transition. Readers will learn about the system activities resulting into three interconnected themes: the outcomes of creativity and development that emerge from dynamic undertakings, the interrelation between individual and social underpinnings, and the role of mediating artifacts and domains in development and creativity.
Keywords:
creativity,
developmental psychology,
complex systems,
social processes,
dynamism,
intelligence,
development,
ideas
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2003 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195149005 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195149005.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
R. Keith Sawyer, author
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Vera John-Steiner, author
University of New Mexico, USA
Seana Moran, author
Harvard University, USA
Robert J Sternberg, author
Yale University, USA
David Henry Feldman, author
Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA
Jeanne Nakamura, author
Claremont Graduate University, California, USA
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author
Claremont Graduate University, California, USA
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