Creativity, Culture, and Development - Creativity in the Twenty First Century 1st ed. 2015 edition

Jacket Description/Back: This volume presents a collection of writings on the relations among creativity, culture and development. The editors invited like-minded researchers of creativity from around the world to share their respective notions of creativity. Given that human creativity is a potential that can and should be nurtured in the course of lifespan development and across all cultural backgrounds, the volume emphasizes the importance of promoting creativity in all cultures and through societal-educational opportunities, and offers a venue for the authors to make conceptual, empirical and practical inquiries into the relations among creativity, development and culture. The authors represent a varied mix of contemporary and emerging creativity researchers who use different methodologies to investigate the importance of culture in creativity development, and the reciprocal role of developing creativity and cultural enrichment. The volume represents an attempt on the part of the editors and the authors to broaden our current understanding of creativity in the contexts of human and cultural development, and in so doing to enhance our understanding of creativity, culture and development in the contexts of flourishing human and societal activities. As the first volume in a book series on Creativity in the Twenty-First Century, the book invites readers and researchers to engage in future interdisciplinary and intercultural discourses and dialogues on the importance of creativity for human and cultural development."Table of Contents: Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Volume of Creativity, Culture and Development.- Part 1 Conceptions of Creativity, Culture and Development.- Chapter 2 Unpacking the Triad of Creativity, Culture, and Development: An Exercise in Relational Thinking.- Chapter 3 Indigenous Chinese Epistemologies as a Source of Creativity.- Chapter 4 The Person in Creativity, Development and Culture from the Perspective of William Stern (1871-1938).- Chapter 5 Affect and Creativity: An Old Topic and New Direction.- Part 2 Empirical Evidence and Practice.- Chapter 6 Gender Differences in Means and Variability on Creative Thinking: Patterns in Childhood, Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood.- Chapter 7 A Case Study to Explore Creativity in Preschoolers through Chinese Reading.- Chapter 8 Children's Affectivity and Efficacies.- Chapter 9 How to Develop Children's Creativity and Intercultural Sensitivity: Around Creativity Compass Program.- Chapter 10 Assessing Schools on Creativity: A Toolbox for U. S. Teachers and Policymakers and a To-Do List for Researchers Worldwide.- Chapter 11 Is Relational Theory a Better Answer to the Psychology of Creativity?.- Part 3 Valuing Creativity.- Chapter 12 Developing Society: Reflections on the Notion of Societal Creativity.- Chapter 13 Organizational Creativity as an Approach towards Leveraging on the Networking and Caring Capacity on the Networking and Caring Capacity of (Vision Rehabilitation) Services.- Chapter 14 Creativity in Musical Performance: Musicians' Notion of Tradition, Originality and Value of Performance.- Chapter 15 Team Processing and Creative Self Efficacy in Professionals from Creative and Non-creative Industries. Publisher Marketing: This volume presents a collection of writings on the relations among creativity, culture and development. The editors invited like-minded researchers of creativity from around the world to share their respective notions of creativity. Given that human creativity is a potential that can and should be nurtured in the course of lifespan development and across all cultural backgrounds, the volume emphasizes the importance of promoting creativity in all cultures and through societal-educational opportunities, and offers a venue for the authors to make conceptual, empirical and practical inquiries into the relations among creativity, development and culture. The authors represent a varied mix of contemporary and emerging creativity researchers who use different methodologies to investigate the importance of culture in creativity development and the reciprocal role of developing creativity and cultural enrichment. The volume represents an attempt on the part of the editors and the authors to broaden our current understanding of creativity in the contexts of human and cultural development, and in so doing to enhance our understanding of creativity, culture and development in the contexts of flourishing human and societal activities. As the first volume in a book series on Creativity in the Twenty-First Century, the book invites readers and researchers to engage in future interdisciplinary and intercultural discourses and dialogues on the importance of creativity for human and cultural development."