The Nature of Creative DevelopmentStanford University Press, 18.05.2006 - 600 Seiten 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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... distinctive to them — whereas in other realms this link is less fully acknowledged; and I wanted to study how individuals, drawing on the common cultural pool of values and principles, are guided and function in xi xii their work and ...
... distinctive, even unique — even within a field and a cohort of individuals in a field each individual typi- cally forms a different, distinctive interest; the creative interests I present and describe as examples illustrate this point ...
... distinctive channel of cultural transmission described in the book is that which occurs through individuals' formation of their creative interests. Creative interests originate in individuals' engagement with the world, sparked by ...
... distinctive, even unique. Yet they are also broad, broader than individual projects or ideas, defining domains that can be explored and developed in many different ways. These two characteristics, distinctiveness and breadth, are to ...
... distinctive topics that individuals define for themselves, thus inherently more creative. And I show how important such distinctive interests are as the basis of original ideas, discoveries, insights, and projects, leading to creative ...
Inhalt
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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 |