The Paradox of Creativity in Art Education Bourdieu and Socio-cultural Practice /

• Main Author: Thomas, Kerry (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Art education.; Learning.; Instruction.; Teaching.; Educational sociology.; Creativity and Arts Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Sociology of Education.

This book examines the paradox of creativity in art education and proposes a possible resolution. Based on the findings of a longitudinal ethnographic study as a particular case of creative practice in art education, this book is underpinned by Bourdieu's concepts of the habitus, symbolic capit...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Sampling alternative conceptions f creativity
• Chapter 3. Conceiving of creativity as a socio-cultural practice
• Chapter 4. The study of creative practice in the particularities of the art classroom
• Chapter 5. The shaping of creative experience and possibilities in the art classroom: Grounded narratives
• Chapter 6. Celebrating the ingenuity and mystery of the cultural achievement of creativity: Animating the workings of the art classroom
• Chapter 7. Reconceptualising creativity.