Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity

Kaufman, James C.; Beghetto, Ronald A.

doi:10.1037/a0013688

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“…Children's DT aptitude at 7 years predicts their future creative achievements and careers (Cramond, Matthews-Morgan, Bandalos, & Zuo, 2005;Runco, Millar, Acar, & Cramond, 2010). Thus the capacity to think divergently early in life may be essential for adults to later contribute important, influential ideas to society (Kaufman & Beghetto, 2009). However, given the importance of early DT, it is surprising how little research exists to determine the factors related to its emergence in the first place.…”

Section: One-year-olds Think Creatively Just Like Their Parentsmentioning

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Individual differences and age-related changes in divergent thinking in toddlers and preschoolers.

Berg¹,

Hoicka²

2014

Developmental Psychology

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Divergent thinking shows the ability to search for new ideas, which is an important factor contributing to innovation and problem solving. Current divergent thinking tests allow researchers to study children’s divergent thinking from the age of 3 years on. This article presents the first measure of divergent thinking that can be used with children as young as 2 years. The Unusual Box test is a nonverbal and nonimitative test in which children play individually with a novel toy and novel objects. Divergent thinking is scored as the number of different actions performed. Study 1 shows that the Unusual Box test is a valid measure of divergent thinking as it correlates with standard measures of divergent thinking in 3- and 4-year-olds. Study 2 indicates that the test can be used with 2-year-olds, as it shows high test–retest reliability, demonstrating that 2-year-olds can think divergently. Across both studies, individual differences and age-related changes were found, indicating that some children are better at divergent thinking than others and that children’s divergent thinking increases with age. This test will allow researchers to gain insight into the early emergence of divergent thinking.

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Section: One-year-olds Think Creatively Just Like Their Parentsmentioning

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Individual differences and age-related changes in divergent thinking in toddlers and preschoolers.

Berg¹,

Hoicka²

2014

Developmental Psychology

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“…Kaufman and Beghetto (2009) answered this question by designating the different levels of creativity. Within this categorization the 'Little c level' creativity is highlighted in the scientific literature of organizational creativity.…”

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“…Fortunately, a need for clarifying these two controversial aspects appeared in scientific papers a couple of years ago. As mentioned above, the various levels of creativity were summarised by Kaufman and Beghetto (2009). We believe in the small c (like other theorists of organisational creativity) which can be measured with tests based on consensus, assessed by a manager or a co-worker.…”

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How Can Creative Workplaces Meet Creative Employees?

Derecskei¹,

Nagy²,

Paprika³

2017

CEBR

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The aim of this study is to identify the individual and contextual factors that facilitate or hinder employees' creativity. However, in this paper the literature is also referring to critical factors that impact employees' creativity. According to the creativity's state of the art, we focused on factors based on creativity's 4P, choosing Person (characteristics of creative persons) and Place (environmental factors that influence creativity). Considerable research efforts have been invested to explore the possible connections between these two domains by investigating the Hungarian labour market. We found that the probability that a creative person works in a creative workplace is twice greater than that of the case of a non-creative person. This study presents the requisites of a creative workplace so that employees' creativity can be developed and a kind of work environment which facilitates organizational creativity can be created. First, we have collected and presented the best practices of recruitment-tools which help managers to hire the most creative applicants. With these two components, i.e. finding creative workers and securing them a creative friendly environment, the business success is guaranteed.

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“…In addition, creativity now is recognized as having multiple forms and purposes. Scholars like Kaufman and Beghetto (2009) differentiate these forms along a continuum of process and production. For them, "mini c" creativity describes transformative learning in which everyday people make personally meaningful interpretations of actions, insights and experiences; "little c" creativity describes routine everyday problem solving, workarounds, and creative expressions (often within work contexts); "Pro-C" creativity describes professional or vocational creativity that is significant but not eminent; and "Big C" creativity is recognized as major or "great" within a field.…”

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Remix, literacy and creativity: An analytic review of the research literature

Knobel¹

2017

EHA

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Creativity is often identified as a key factor contributing to national economic growth and as an important life skill for personal and group wellbeing. Therefore, it is worth taking a close look at "creativity" as a concept and a practice, and to examine what might be at stake when grouping them together, especially in relation to schooling. The situation at schools is in marked contrast to a sizeable body of out-of-school research which shows how people are being creative and imaginative in their meaning making practices, especially within remix practices. The purpose of the paper is to survey existing English language research on digital remix and literacy with a view to identifying patterns across these studies that speak of the ways in which ordinary, everyday people have been practicing creativity. In the course of conducting this analytic review empirical publications published in English over the past two decades were examined and an overview of scientific literature on remix and literacy in out-of-school spaces was drawn up, identifying interesting patterns regarding creative endeavor and meaning making that might usefully inform classroom pedagogy. A related aim was to identify patterns concerning how digital remix and literacy have been studied to date. All of the 36 reviewed studies emphasise how approaching creativity as a thoroughly social phenomenon helps to confront instrumental approaches. The remix work documented in these studies show how committed people are to deliberately work at "being creative" and how that may help people to creatively engage with, or respond to, the rapid pace of change, with existing and emerging social, governmental and environmental problems, as well as to establish and maintain relationships across distance and differences.

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Beyond Big and Little: The Four C Model of Creativity

Cited by 1,796 publications

References 70 publications

Individual differences and age-related changes in divergent thinking in toddlers and preschoolers.

Individual differences and age-related changes in divergent thinking in toddlers and preschoolers.

How Can Creative Workplaces Meet Creative Employees?

Remix, literacy and creativity: An analytic review of the research literature

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