Continuum Teaching Creativity: Multi-mode Transitional Practices (Continuum Studies in Educational Research)

This is a study devoted to creativity in arts education and in particular visual arts, music, and creative writing.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."Continuum Studies in Educational Research" ("CSER") is a major new series in the field of educational research. Written by experts and scholars for experts and scholars, this ground-breaking series focuses on research in the areas of comparative education, history, lifelong learning, philosophy, policy, post-compulsory education, psychology and sociology. Based on cutting edge research and written with lucidity and passion, the "CSER" series showcases only those books that really matter in education - studies that are major, that will be remembered for having made a difference. Review '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 About the Author Derek Pigrum has been a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Bath since 2001. He is an active member of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain and has written a number of articles and chapters on creativity, art and research.