Teaching Creativity: Multi-mode Transitional Practices

Hardback

Main Details

Title Teaching Creativity: Multi-mode Transitional Practices
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dr Derek Pigrum
Series edited by Anthony Haynes
SeriesContinuum Studies in Educational Research
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:216
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9781847060389
ClassificationsDewey:700.71
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 30

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication Date 20 April 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.

Reviews

'The book is a profound work of research in which Pigrum systematically leads the reader through the covert and overt stages of the creative process, looking deep into its philosophical, psychological, cultural, and circumstantial aspects. [...] Teaching Creativity is a scholarly, reflective book that is rich, intense, condensed, and at the same time seems to be written with a remarkably free hand and spirit.' - Studies in Gestalt Therapy, 2009