Overview
- While the volume represents many different methods of studying creativity, each contributor has built upon or been highly influenced by Howard E. Gruber’s evolving systems approach to creativity
Part of the book series: Path in Psychology (PATH)
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About this book
Inspired by Howard Gruber’s Evolving Systems Approach, these studies explore creativity in several domains. The idea that the creative person embodies a system of loosely coupled sub-systems – knowledge, purpose, and affect that work together, is viewed here in different chapters that explore this concept. These include autobiographies of incarcerated youth, curricula for moral and civic responsibility, changing attitudes of readers to text (romance novels), as well as case studies of highly creative individuals, such as George Bernard Shaw. Gruber’s approach provides concepts as well as methodological tools which the authors apply to diverse creative processes.
This book is a valuable resource for undergraduate as well as graduate level students interested in creativity, development, and education. In addition to the intrinsic interest of each chapter, the guiding theme of the book is the underlying theory of creativity, Gruber’s Evolving Systems Approach, and illustrates the unusual breadth and flexibility of that theory.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education, Arts, and Morality
Book Subtitle: Creative Journeys
Editors: Doris B. Wallace
Series Title: Path in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b108356
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48670-8Published: 12 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9897-1Published: 22 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48671-5Published: 27 January 2006
Series ISSN: 1574-048X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 174
Topics: Clinical Psychology