Creativity in Latin America

Preiss, David; Strasser, Katherine

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“…As we have just begun to consider, human creativity is a complex phenomenon that takes on numerous forms and may be recognized in various ways depending on the context and criteria we impose. As a result, conceptions of creativity have changed over the centuries and vary across cultural and social contexts (Mpofu, Myambo, Mogaji, Mashego, & Khaleefa, 2006;Niu, 2006;Niu & Sternberg, 2006;Preiser, 2006;Preiss & Strasser, 2006;Sawyer, 2012). For example, in Ancient Greece the types of human activities and products we now refer to as "creative" were thought to be driven by external forces-the muses or some form of possession by a spirit (Dacey, 1999).…”

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Musical creativity and the embodied mind

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The phenomenon of creativity has received a growing amount of attention from scholars working across a range of disciplines. While this research has produced many important insights, it has also traditionally tended to explore creativity in terms of the reception of products or outcomes, conceiving of it as a cognitive process that is limited to the individual domain of the creative agent. More recently, however, researchers have begun to develop perspectives on creativity that highlight the patterns of adaptive embodied interaction that occur between multiple agents, as well as the broader sociomaterial milieu they are situated in. This has promoted new understandings of creativity, which is now often considered as a distributed phenomenon. Because music involves such a wide range of socio-cultural, bodily, technological, and temporal dimensions it is increasingly taken as a paradigmatic example for researchers who wish to explore creativity from this more relational perspective. In this article, we aim to contribute to this project by discussing musical creativity in light of recent developments in embodied cognitive science. More specifically, we will attempt to frame an approach to musical creativity based in an 4E (embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) understanding of cognition. We suggest that this approach may help us better understand creativity in terms of how interacting individuals and social groups bring forth worlds of meaning through shared, embodied processes of dynamic interactivity. We also explore how dynamical systems theory (DST) may offer useful tools for research and theory that align closely with the 4E perspective. To conclude, we summarize our discussion and suggest possibilities for future research.

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What Do We Know About the Development of Creativity in South America?

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New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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We review recent research about the development of creativity in South America focusing on studies of individual differences in creativity and educational and developmental studies of children and adolescents' creativity. Most South American researchers are influenced by mainstream psychometric approaches, although computational and cultural approaches are also considered. Two main areas of inquiry are: (a) the relationship between creativity and other constructs, and (b) the structural and cultural inhibitors of creativity in school. Studies conducted beyond the school shed light on the role resilience has in fostering creativity. The lack of studies testing interventions aimed at promoting creativity is concerning. There is also a surprising lack of observational studies related to the pedagogy of creativity. Last but not least, there is a need to advance research on other factors, in addition to the educational ones, that may play a role in fostering creativity in South America.

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A Sociotechnological Theory of Discursive Change and Entrepreneurial Capacity: Novelty and Networks

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2014

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Creativity in Latin America

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Musical creativity and the embodied mind

Musical creativity and the embodied mind

What Do We Know About the Development of Creativity in South America?

A Sociotechnological Theory of Discursive Change and Entrepreneurial Capacity: Novelty and Networks

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