The Nature of Creative DevelopmentStanford University Press, 18/05/2006 - 600 páginas The Nature of Creative Development presents a new understanding of the basis of creativity. Describing patterns of development seen in creative individuals, the author shows how creativity grows out of distinctive interests that often form years before one makes his/her main conributions. The book is filled with case studies that analyze creative developments across a wide range of fields. The individuals examined range from Virginia Woolf and Albert Einstein to Thomas Edison and Ray Kroc. The text also considers contemporary creatives interviewed by the author. Feinstein provides a useful framework for those engaged in creative work or in managing such individuals. This text will help the reader understand the nature of creativity, including the difficulties that one may encounter in working creatively and ways to overcome them. |
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... learning, I left it aside. I majored in economics — attracted, I think, by the idea of aggregating individuals to form a market, which resonated with me, and by the formal modeling. In the last years of college and the years following ...
... learning. At the same time as I engaged in interviewing, and after finishing the bulk ofthe interviews drawn upon in this book, I read, and continue to read, in the biography literature and source materials of individuals famous for ...
... learning about the field and encounter many elements in it that are new to them — they often form creative interests during these periods. In forming their creative interests, especially in the initial stages responding to experiences ...
... learning about a creative interest an individual learns ofand about many elements that fit in its domain or are connected with it — for example, creative works, ideas, concepts, theories, facts, phenomena, and images. His attention is ...
... learning, and project work. Psychological studies of memory raise the concern that individuals falsely remember and reconstruct past events or thoughts in some cases. For my description in this book the greatest concern is that ...
Índice
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3 The Development of Creative Interests | 62 |
4 Intrinsic Sources of Interest | 107 |
5 Extrinsic and Strategic Factors in the Development of Creative Interests | 134 |
6 Kinds of Creative Interests | 160 |
7 The Distinctiveness and Breadth of Creative Interests | 182 |
8 Resonances and Connections | 224 |
12 Creativity in Projects | 388 |
13 Multiple Interests | 425 |
Patterns of Projects Projects and Interests | 444 |
Evolution of Interests and Sequences of Interests | 463 |
16 Difficulties in Creative Development | 505 |
Modeling Cultural Development | 522 |
Modeling Individuals in Social Systems | 543 |
Appendix | 549 |
9 Creative Responses | 248 |
10 Exploration of Creative Interests and Creativity Generation Creative Expertise | 293 |
11 The Role of Conceptions of Creative Interests and Associated Values and Principles in Guidance Management of Creative Development at the Met... | 353 |
Bibliography | 561 |
Index | 562 |