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Childhood Creativity
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colonial discourse analysis
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comparative education studies
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Creativity
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developmental psychology
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Foucauldian analysis
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racialized creativity in education
Rousseau
social construction of childhood
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The Creative Child
Western enlightenment
Western Modernity
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- ISBN 9780367503642
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2024
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This text offers a comprehensive analysis of the concept of the modern creative and imaginative child in Western education. Drawing on archived sources and historical works, it reframes childhood creativity as a social, cultural, and scientific construction, asking how our thinking and acting toward the creative child have been produced historically. The text dissects the discursive construction of creativity as a natural and developmental attribute of the child. It argues that the idea of the White creative child, constructed through comparative reasoning, shaped by primitivism, and illustrated through botanical metaphors as close to nature and the senses, is a notion embedded with colonialities, forming part of a Western civilizing project and entrenched power-knowledge relations. A compelling and original account of childhood creativity, this text will appeal to researchers in arts education, early childhood education, curriculum studies, and the history of education.
Cat Martins is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, Portugal. They are also Director of the doctoral program in Arts Education.
