Routledge Thinking Through Creativity and Culture: Toward an Integrated Model (History and Theory of Psychology)

About the Author Vlad Petre Glăveanu is associate professor in the department of communication and psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and associate researcher at the Institute of Psychology of Université Paris Descartes, France.Jaan Valsiner is professor of psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the founding editor of the journal Culture & Psychology, the author of several books, including The Guided Mind, and the series editor for Transaction's History and Theory of Psychology series. Product Description Creativity and culture are inherently linked. Society and culture are part and parcel of creativity's process, outcome, and subjective experience. Equally, creativity does not reside in the individual independent of culture and society.Vlad Petre Glveanu's basic framework includes creators and community, from which new artifacts emerge and existing artifacts are developed. He points to a relationship between self and other, new and old, specific for every creative act. Using this multifaceted system requires that researchers employ ecological research in order to capture the heterogeneity and social dimensions of creativity.Glveanu uses an approach based on cultural psychology to present creativity in lay terms and within everyday settings. He concludes with a unitary cultural framework of creativity interrelating actors, audiences, actions, artifacts, and affordances. Review -From analyses of the traditional craft of decorated Easter eggs, a new perspective on creativity has hatched. This fascinating book unites a dozen of Vlad Glaveanu's outstanding contributions to the modern scientific study of creativity; it marks the arrival of a fresh cultural psychological approach. Anyone interested in creativity, in both children and adults, will be enriched by considering the embedded, contextual angle that this book offers.---Todd Lubart, UniversitE Paris Descartes; director of LATI Research Lab-Vlad Petre Glveanu is one of the most exciting young voices in creativity research. This invaluable book collects his best work in one essential volume. A reflective scholar and an engaging writer, Glveanu will make you think about creativity in new ways.---James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut"From analyses of the traditional craft of decorated Easter eggs, a new perspective on creativity has hatched. This fascinating book unites a dozen of Vlad Glaveanu's outstanding contributions to the modern scientific study of creativity; it marks the arrival of a fresh cultural psychological approach. Anyone interested in creativity, in both children and adults, will be enriched by considering the embedded, contextual angle that this book offers."--Todd Lubart, UniversitE Paris Descartes; director of LATI Research Lab"Vlad Petre Glveanu is one of the most exciting young voices in creativity research. This invaluable book collects his best work in one essential volume. A reflective scholar and an engaging writer, Glveanu will make you think about creativity in new ways."--James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut"From analyses of the traditional craft of decorated Easter eggs, a new perspective on creativity has hatched. This fascinating book unites a dozen of Vlad Glaveanu's outstanding contributions to the modern scientific study of creativity; it marks the arrival of a fresh cultural psychological approach. Anyone interested in creativity, in both children and adults, will be enriched by considering the embedded, contextual angle that this book offers." --Todd Lubart, UniversitE Paris Descartes; director of LATI Research Lab "Vlad Petre Glveanu is one of the most exciting young voices in creativity research. This invaluable book collects his best work in one essential volume. A reflective scholar and an engaging writer, Glveanu will make you think about creativity in new ways." --James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut