Thinking Through Creativity and Culture

Vlad Petre Glveanu is associate professor in the department of communication and psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and associate researcher at the Institute of Psychology of Universite Paris Descartes, France. Jaan Valsiner is professor of psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the founding editor of the journal Culture & Psychology , the author of several books, including The Guided Mind , and the series editor for Transaction's History and Theory of Psychology series.

• List of Tables and FiguresForeword, by Jaan Valsiner1 IntroductionPart A Theoretical Framework2 Paradigms in the Study of Creativity: Introducing the Perspective of Cultural Psychology3 Creativity as Cultural ParticipationPart B Methodological Toolkit4 A Multiple Feedback Methodology for the Study of Creativity Evaluations5 "Through the Creator's Eyes": Using the Subjective Camera to Study Craft CreativityPart C Case Study: The Creativity of Craftwork6 Creativity in Context: The Ecology of Creativity Evaluations and Practices in an Artistic Craft7 Creativity and Folk Art: A Study of Creative Action in Traditional CraftPart D The Representation of Creativity8 Creating Creativity: Reflections from Fieldwork9 Is the Lightbulb On? Social Representations of Creativity in a Western ContextPart E The Creativity of Action10 Habitual Creativity: Revising Habit, Reconceptualizing Creativity11 What Can Be Done with an Egg? Creativity, Material Objects, and The Theory of AffordancesPart F Creativity Development12 Children and Creativity: A Most (Un)Likely Pair?13 Creativity Development in Community Contexts: The Case of Folk Art14 The Cultural Psychology of Creativity: An Integrated ModelReferencesIndex

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