Teaching Creativity: Multi-Mode Transitional Practices (Continuum Studies in Educational Research)

Derek Pigrum

ISBN 10: 144111789X / ISBN 13: 9781441117892

Published by Continuum, 2012

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199 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teaching Creativity: Multi-Mode Transitional Practices (Continuum Studies in Educational Research)
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144111789X
• ISBN 13: 9781441117892
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.32 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

This study is concerned with creativity in education - especially in arts education (broadly conceived to include the visual arts, music, and creative writing). It takes as its starting point Nietzsche's view that works of art do not appear "as if by magic".

Using insights from philosophy, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, the book examines the creative processes of many artists in different media, showing how art works often result from processes of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction that may be long and laborious. Pigrum demonstrates how teachers and their students in all sectors of education may gain from a better, systematic, understanding of such processes.

About the Authors

Derek Pigrum is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK. He is an active member of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.

Anthony Haynes is former Chair of the English Association schools committee, former faculty co-ordinator and mentor of PGCE students and NQTs.