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Chappell, Kerry
(2008).
URL: http://web.education.unimelb.edu.au/UNESCO/pdfs/ej...
Abstract
Within the context of developing creativity discourse and policy, this paper begins by exploring a number of the tensions that emerged from research using an interdisciplinary framework to investigate creativity with English expert specialist dance teachers. The paper then interrogates and articulates the productive dynamics of one of these tensions that occur between individual, collaborative and communal creativity. This tension is discussed within the wider debate of individualised versus collaborative/communal creativity and the encouragement of the former by individualised, marketised creativity policies. It is argued that one constructive product of articulating how dance professionals negotiate this tension within education is a pertinent and helpful example of a more humane framework for creativity than that espoused by the individualised marketisation agenda. In turn the paper draws out the idea of humanising creativity as a productive process that has the potential to challenge aspects of the dominant policy discourse in an emergent way.
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- Item ORO ID
- 37496
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1835-2776
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set Not Set AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) - Extra Information
- Title of issue: 'Creativity, Policy and Practice Discourses: Productive Tensions in the New Millenium'
- Keywords
- humanising creativity; dance education; policy/practice tension
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) - Research Group
- Education
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- Kerry Chappell