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Rethinking Creativity: Contributions from social and cultural psychology book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking Creativity Contributions from social and cultural psychology

Edited By Vlad Petre Glăveanu, Alex Gillespie, Jaan Valsiner Copyright 2015
168 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Despite more than half a century of psychological research on creativity we are still far from a clear understanding of the creative process, its antecedents and consequences and, most of all, the ways in which we can effectively support creativity. This is primarily due to a narrow focus on creative individuals isolated from culture and society. Rethinking Creativity proposes a fundamental... Read more

Preface: The Sociocultural Approach to Creativity Keith Sawyer  Editors’ Introduction: Entering into the Creativity Zone, on the Border Between the Mundane and the Monstrous Jaan Valsiner, Vlad Petre Glăveanu and Alex Gillespie  1. Creativity out of Difference: Theorising the Semiotic, Social and Temporal Origin of Creative Acts Vlad Petre Glaveanu and Alex Gillespie  2. Creativity as Symbolic Transformation Brady Wagoner  3. Creative Engagement Across the Lifespan Vera John-Steiner  4. Canonical Affordances and Creative Agency Alan Costall  5. Life-Creativity: Imagining One’s Life Tania Zittoun and Constance de Saint-Laurent  6. The Creativity of the Social: Imagination, Development and Social Change in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas Sandra Jovchelovitch  7. Creativity and the Generative Approach to Culture and Meaning Cor Baerveldt and James Cresswell  8. The Socio-Materiality of Creativity: A Case Study of the Creative Processes in Design Work Lene Tanggaard  9. Discussing Creativity from a Cultural Psychological Perspective Alex Gillespie, Cor Baerveldt, Alan Costall, James Cresswell, Constance de Saint-Laurent, Vlad Glaveanu, Vera John-Steiner, Sandra Jovchelovitch, Keith Sawyer, Lene Tanggaard, Jaan Valsiner, Brady Wagoner and Tania Zittoun

Biography

Vlad Glaveanu is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark, and Research Associate in the Institute of Psychology, Paris Descartes University, France.

Alex Gillespie is Lecturer in Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology, London School of Economics, UK.

Jaan Valsiner is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and Professor of Psychology and English at Clark University, USA.

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