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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... interests, individuals form more defined creative interests, which form the basis for their development going forward. A key step in the process offorming a more fully defined creative interest is forming a conception of one's interest. An ...
... interest; however, it also challenges conventional ideas about interests and differs in significant respects from them. It is a commonplace that individuals engaged in creative ... His interests are the focus ofhis attention, 1. Introduction.
Jonathan S. Feinstein. 8 them creatively. His interests are the focus ofhis attention, thinking, and creative activity, at the core ofhis creative development. Through exploring and learning about a creative interest an individual learns ...
... the basis for the project, thus generating a link with the interest. Projects are crucial to creative work: in the course ofpursuing a project an individual is in many cases taken far beyond the interest that was the basis for the project, ...
... my view and conviction is that individuals form conceptions of their creative interests and that forming such a conception facilitates forming a rich conceptual structure encoding and defining one's creative interest in one's mind. But my ...
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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 |