The Creative Turn: Toward a New Aesthetic Imaginary

194 Pages·2014·1.9 MB·English

by  Anne Harris (auth.)

The Creative Turn
Advances in Creativity and Giftedness
Volume 6
Advances in Creativity and Gifted Education (ADVA) is the fi rst internationally
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The Creative Turn
Toward a New Aesthetic Imaginary
Anne Harris
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Note for Readers ix
Introduction: Building Creative Capital 1
Chapter 1 The Creative Turn in Educational Discourse: Reality or Rhetoric? 17
Chapter 2 Young Playwrights’ Ink 31
Chapter 3 Deaducation: Why Schools Need to Change 53
Chapter 4 Ethics ‘Versus’ Aesthetics: Best Frenemies? 73
Chapter 5 Aesthetic Politics and Creative Pathways 97
Chapter 6 Aesthetics and Innovation 113
Chapter 7 Animating Culture Or: Where has all the Magic Gone? 127
Chapter 8 Creative Industries Or Creative Imaginaries? 151
Chapter 9 Our Creative Century: Toward a New Aesthetic Imaginary 171
Index 183
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My deep gratitude to my friends, passionate co-thinkers and vibrant, committed
community of creative, arts education, and arts-based researchers and scholars,
most especially Enza Gandolfo, Christine Sinclair, Clare Hall, Mary Ann Hunter
and Robyn Ewing. Additional thanks for conceptual and editorial engagement with
these draft chapters from my generous and valued colleagues, most especially: Mary
Lou Rasmussen, Melissa Wolfe, Elena Petrova, Emily Gray, Genine Hook, Julie
Faulkner, Sally Newman, Simone White and the Monash University writers group
readers of an early draft of The Creative Turn chapter.
Thanks also to the collaborators, participants, and friends who dreamed up and
implemented the case studies featured here. Those from Culture Shack: Mary Rose
McLaren, Andrea Lemon, Brett Reynolds, Sonja Dare, Nantali Indongo, Jon Staley,
Kate Kantor, Michael White, Merophie Carr, Maria Vella, Jennifer Barry, Darren
Brown, Tin Nguyen, Julie Ung, Vineta Ioapo, Atong Deng, Abul Adub, Aluel Aleer
Chut, Mava Valu, Mele Vi, Achai Deng, Piath Thuoc, Sunday Deng, Ana Faafetai, Joy
Ioapo, Eseta Ioapo, Andrea Malut, Ayat Malut, Jaclin Dimo, Andrea Dimo, Afreem
Sagor, Dona Malaish, Abuk Deng, Linda Deng, Winy Anai Majok, Tran Ho, Akec
Diing, Ayen Diing, Quynh Quach, Ben O’Mara, Patrick O’Neill, Sarah Wallace,
Nick Donaldson, Demian Shipley-Marshall, Samantha Trewin, Angie Manifavas,
John Carreon, Huy Le, and all others inadvertently overlooked – thank you all for
your incredible passion! From Teaching Diversities, my thanks to my collaborators
Bree McKilligan, Lian Low and Greig Friday; to our inspiring advisory group and
critical friends, among them Darren Grainger, Dr Greg Curran, Roz Ward, Associate
Professor Anne Mitchell, Dr Shanton Chang, Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, and to
those who will remain anonymous who shared their stories and experiences of being
‘multi’. From SAILing into Uni!: Adiba Jalaly, Achai Deng, Catherine Kuol, Dona
Malaish and Vivian Simon, Belinda Crockett, Ruth Klein, the Sudanese Australian
Integrated Learning Program including Nik Tan and Sophie Tolich and the students
at all campuses; and lastly but certainly not least, those stalwarts of New York City’s
Young Playwrights Inc.: Artistic Director extraordinaire Sheri Goldhirsch, who
always says yes and has been an inspiration to me since I met her at 19 years of age,
and continues to teach me about the beauty and efficacy of humbly doing the work
despite enormous odds and at great personal cost, and to Brett Reynolds who makes
each new generation of young people believe that being a playwright is something
noble, worthy and fun. Thanks also to the interviewees included in this book from
the many hundreds of Young Playwrights Festival alumni, particularly Tish Durkin,
Madeleine George, and Greg Clayman. Thanks to my colleagues in creativity, new
media and the arts at the Faculty of Education at Monash University and elsewhere,
who sustain me in this often-unpopular work. Thanks to copyeditor extraordinaire
Rebecca Miller for both her technical and conceptual engagement in preparing this
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
manuscript for publication, and to my wonderful editors Bharath Sriraman and
Michel Lokhorst at Sense Publishers, thank you for making a home for this work.
Above all, thanks to Ruth, Luna and Tasha for making this house a home, and for
making all things not only possible, but always fun and creative.
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NOTE FOR READERS
Figure 1. Melbourne graffiti, #1 (2013).
This book has been designed to be read in conjunction with the digital compendium
for the book, found at the website of the Creative Research Hub:
http://www.creativeresearchhub.com/#!books-and-projects/c619
By clicking on the ‘digital assets’ button for this book, readers can view the videos,
still images, and educational resources that accompany – and are commented upon
in – the critical analysis of this text.
The three main projects that provide the empirical data for this book include:
Culture Shack
Sailing into Uni
and
Teaching Diversities
By clicking on these three tabs viewable on the book page, you will be taken to each
set of videos and other digital assets as you read.
Enjoy!
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