Achieving Extraordinary Ends: An Essay on Creativity

ISBN-13: 9789024736744 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 142 str.

Sharon Bailin; S. Bailin

Opis

Creativity has become a popular slogan in contemporary education and society. We are urged continually to be creative in all our endeavors. Ascribing creativity has become one of the principle means of praising, approving and commending. Yet in the process of becoming a universal term of positive evaluation, the concept of creativity has lost its connection with its origins. We have forgotten what creativity has to do with creating, that it is connected with great achievements and quality productions. And as a consequence, most attempts to foster creativity in educational practice have been misleading and dangerous. We have come to settle for the encouragement of certain personality traits at the expense of the encouragement of significant achievement. This book is meant to clear up thoughts and concepts of creativity.

Spis treści

The Context.- The Contemporary View.- Problems with the Contemporary View.- I Originality.- Originality, Novelty, and Continuity.- Art.- Science and Technology.- Mathematics.- Problem-Solving and Originality in Everyday Life.- Summary.- II Value.- Value in Art.- Value in Science.- Art and Science.- Summary.- III Product, Process, Person.- Product.- Process.- Persons.- Summary.- IV Rules, Skills, and Knowledge.- Rules and Art.- Rules and Science.- Knowledge and Problem-Solving.- Summary.- V The Something More.- Art and the Something More.- Science and the Something More.- Generation and Criticism.- Emotion and Attitude.- Fostering Creativity.