Creativity and Development (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language
Release date:	October 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	R. Keith Sawyer (Assistant Professor of Education) • Vera John-Steiner (Regent's Professor of Education) • Seana Moran (Advanced Doctoral Student) • Robert J. Sternberg (Professor of Psychology and Education) • David Henry Feldman (Professor of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development) • Jeanne Nakamura (Research Director of the Quality of Life Research Center) • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (CS and DJ Davidson Professor of Psychology and Managment)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	266
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-514900-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness > General
LSN:	0-19-514900-9
Barcode:	9780195149005

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