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Kan kreativitet läras ut? En bildpedagogisk översikt 
Lindström, Lars
Journal article in Educare;1 : Lärarutbildningen, Malmö Högskola (2007)peer-reviewed 
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English abstract: This paper is divided into four sections. The first of these provides a review of research on creativity. Case studies of artists and of children and young people, experimental studies in psychology as well as anthropological evidence suggest that creative work has a number of dimensions with educational implications. For example, students should be given ample time to pursue ideas; they should be given credit for being adventurous and willing to take risks; they should be encouraged to combine production with perception and reflection; and they should be given opportunities to assess their own performance and to get feedback from peers and teachers. The next section examines some unexpected results from a major Swedish study on the development of creative skills, from age five to nineteen. For example, the study did not confirm the commonly held belief that the quality of children’s art works stagnates in school. With regard to process criteria, however, referring to the capacity to work independently, evaluate one’s work, and so on, students in comprehensive school appeared to stagnate or show only insignificant improvement. The findings indicate that self-assessment, as well as investigative work, inventiveness and the ability to use models, are not learned by life experience or maturation alone. The third section presents a meta-analytic study by Folkert Haanstra on the effects of art education on aesthetic perception. Haanstra demonstrated that a combination of studio art and reflective art education is most effective in bringing about changes in the ways people understand art. The fourth and final section discusses the use of portfolios to foster an interaction between studio art and reflective art education. A portfolio project in the Netherlands suggests that the school can be reformed from within, if teachers are given opportunities to co-operate around issues such as evaluation, assessment and curriculum development. 
Kan kreativitet laras ut.pdf
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Läraruppdragets egenart och rollmodeller : kreativitetsregimer i hybr...
Kupferberg, Feiwel
Journal article in Educare;1 (2007)peer-reviewed
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English abstract: What does learning to become a professional mean and how can the scientific study of various forms of professional education help those institutions that educate teachers understand better what becoming a professional teacher means in contemporary Swedish society? In this inauguration lecture as new professor of education at Malmo University, I argue that the traditional understanding of what it means to enter a profession that we find in the subdiscipline “the sociology of professions,” has had an unfortunate tendency to overestimate the importance of scientifically grounded knowledge and underestimate other forms of relevant knowledge and experience. In order to conceptualize such an alternative view of analyzing professional education and learning, I suggest the concepts of “creativity regimes” and “hybrid modernity.” Whereas the former concept helps us to clarify how professional education can help students to cope with new situations in a creative manner within their own profession, the concept of hybrid modernity suggests that the professional education of teachers can also gain from studying other types of professional education, as this could broaden the creative competence of future teachers. What I am suggesting is thus that rather than trying to prepare teachers for a career as researchers – which represents a particular creativity regime where critique is the dominant norm in which students are professionally socialized – the education of teachers should be organized around the dominant norm of the pedagogical creativity regime, which is dialogue. Teaching has its own role expectations, norms and identity, but in a society which is increasingly hybridized, being inspired by other models is both a virtue and necessity This role-modeling should not drive out the core competence of teaching but rather supplement it.
Lararuppdragets egenart.pdf
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Universiteten, kreativiteten och politikens aningslöshet
Bennich-Björkman, Li
Journal article in Educare;1 : Lärarutbildningen, Malmö Högskola (2007)peer-reviewed
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English abstract: This article is concerned with what knowledge that can be gained from research on creativity in psychology, social psychology and organizational theory on the one hand and how research policies are conducted on the other. The thesis brought forward is that research on creative personalities and how organizations promoting creativity function does not inform Swedish policy makers responsible for the higher education sector. There are few traces of the insights provided by such research in the presently conducted research policies. In the article, insights from creativity research are presented and discussed, focusing on the how organizations that generate creativity in research tend to be constructed. For example, in order to be able to mobilize the mental energy and concentration needed to produce creative, that is both new and relevant, ideas and solutions inner motivation as opposed to concerns about external assessments is highly crucial. All studies on creativity confirm that. To create the best possible preconditions for such inner motivation to guide researchers, the phase when ideas are worked out is the most sensitive one to safeguard from outside expectations. However, presently we have an organization for research funding based on competition between ideas, ideas that are then scrutinized and assessed at a quite early stage. Another precondition for creative thinking is a climate of risk-taking and non-conformity. The conformity produced by the present funding system where peers are acting as gatekeepers is becoming a problem to many researchers who manoever in a strategic rather than inner-directed manner in order to receive funding.
Universiteten, kreativiteten.pdf
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