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Creative Contradictions in Education

Cross Disciplinary Paradoxes and Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Ronald A. Beghetto

    1. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

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  2. Bharath Sriraman

    1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA

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  • Provides a highly unique and provocative perspective on the topic of creativity and education
  • Brings together leading cross-disciplinary experts to weigh-in on the creative contradictions in education
  • Provides fresh cross-disciplinary insights into how these paradoxes might be resolved or better addressed
  • Introduces new approaches and methodologies for examining long-standing creative contradictions in education

Part of the book series: Creativity Theory and Action in Education (CTAE, volume 1)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Uncovering Conceptual Issues & Barriers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Big-C Versus Little-c Creativity: Definitions, Implications, and Inherent Educational Contradictions

      • Dean Keith Simonton
      Pages 3-19

    3. The Nature of Creativity: Mayflies, Octopi, and the Best Bad Idea We Have

      • Jeffrey K. Smith, Lisa F. Smith
      Pages 21-35

    4. The Difference That Makes a ‘Creative’ Difference in Education

      • Vlad Petre Glăveanu, Ronald A. Beghetto
      Pages 37-54

    5. Avoiding Dogmatic Traps in Creativity and Education Through Awareness of Worldviews and Visual Metaphor

      • Don Ambrose
      Pages 55-73

    6. Creative Interpretations of Educational Contradictions

      • Mark A. Runco
      Pages 75-87

    7. Subordinated and Rebellious Creativity at School

      • Maciej Karwowski
      Pages 89-113

    8. Purposeful Fulfillment of Creative Potential

      • Pablo P. L. Tinio, Baptiste Barbot
      Pages 115-128

    9. Content Matters: Why Nurturing Creativity Is So Different in Different Domains

      • John Baer
      Pages 129-140

  3. Practical Applications & Promising Directions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. People, Passions, Problems: The Role of Creative Exemplars in Teaching for Creativity

      • Robert Root-Bernstein, Michele Root-Bernstein
      Pages 143-164

    3. Where Learning Meets Creativity: The Promise of Guided Play

      • Jennifer M. Zosh, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Rebecca A. Dore
      Pages 165-180

    4. Contradictory Concepts of Creativity in Mathematics Teacher Education

      • Per Øystein Haavold, Alv Birkeland
      Pages 181-199

    5. Do We Need a Revolutionary Approach to Bring Creativity into Education?

      • Cynthia A. Burnett, Kathryn P. Haydon
      Pages 201-220

    6. Promoting Abduction – A Teaching Experiment on Creative Learning Processes in a High School Classroom Context

      • Lene Tanggaard, Rasmus Hjorth
      Pages 221-247

    7. Creative Imagination in Memorization in Mathematics Learning

      • Ai-Girl Tan
      Pages 249-264

    8. The Paradox of Serious Fun

      • Anthony E. Middlebrooks
      Pages 265-280

    9. Creativity in Music Education? The Wild Card That Got Stuck in the Deck

      • Anna Houmann
      Pages 281-301

    10. Children’s and Teachers’ Conceptions of Creativity: Contradictions and Implications in Classroom Instruction

      • Eunsook Hong, Rachel Part, Lonnie Rowell
      Pages 303-331
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Creative Contradictions in Education is a provocative collection of essays by international experts who tackle difficult questions about creativity in education from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine and provide fresh insights into the tensions and contradictions that researchers and educators face when attempting to understand and apply creativity in educational contexts.    Creativity in education is surrounded by many contradictions. Teachers generally value creativity, but question the role it can and should play in their classroom. Many educators find themselves feeling caught between the push to promote students’ creative thinking skills and the pull to meet external curricular mandates, increased performance monitoring, and various other curricular constraints. This book brings together leading experts who provide fresh, cross-disciplinary insights into how creative contradictions in education might be addressed. Contributors will draw from existing empirical and theoretical work, but push beyond “what currently is” and comment on future possibilities. This includes challenging the orthodoxy of traditional conceptions of creativity in education or making a case for maintaining particular orthodoxies.    

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

    Ronald A. Beghetto

  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA

    Bharath Sriraman

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