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• TITLE: Discussion Article: Disciplinary Boundaries for Creativity

  AUTHORS: Stuart Rowlands

  KEYWORDS: Art, Mathematics, Science, Novel Ideas, Transforming The Disciplines

  JOURNAL NAME: Creative Education, Vol.2 No.1, March 30, 2011

  ABSTRACT: Creativity is a very topical issue and indeed a political one. For example, the very notion of ‘little c creativity’ seems to be a reflection of the requirements of what could be described as a ‘Post-Fordist’ economy. However, the call to develop creativity in education is largely based on the idea of creativity as the production of novel ideas. The central argument of this article is that creativity cannot be seen purely in terms of novel ideas but that it is intrinsically bound with the teaching of the academic disciplines. It is within the context of creativity in the sense of transforming the disciplines that two paradoxes are discussed. The first paradox is that the truly creative act is not the preserve of the genius but the potential for the whole of humanity. Secondly, creativity involves both thinking within the constraints of the discipline and challenging those constraints. This implies the need for students to engage in meta-discourse, involving the nature and history of the subject-matter taught.