Creativity and education :teaching the unfamiliar Pollard, Vikki 2012, Creativity and education :teaching the unfamiliar, in The Joint Australian Association for Research in Education and Asia-Pacific Education Research Association Conference World Education Research Association Focal Meeting, [The Conference], Sydney, NSW, pp. 1-8. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads pollard-creativity-2012.pdf Published version application/pdf 254.10KB 164 Title Creativity and education :teaching the unfamiliar Author(s) Pollard, Vikki orcid.org/0000-0002-2209-1199 Conference name Australian Association for Research in Education and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association. Combined Conference (2012 : Sydney, New South Wales) Conference location Sydney, New South Wales Conference dates 3-6 Dec. 2012 Title of proceedings The Joint Australian Association for Research in Education and Asia-Pacific Education Research Association Conference World Education Research Association Focal Meeting Editor(s) [Unknown] Publication date 2012 Conference series Australian Association for Research in Education and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association Combined Conference Start page 1 End page 8 Total pages 8 Publisher [The Conference] Place of publication Sydney, NSW Keyword(s) creativity creative education teaching creativity Summary The development of capacities of creativity has long been important in creative arts education (Morgan, 2012) and is increasingly becoming important to other fields in higher education (McWilliam and Haukka, 2008, Csikszentmihalyi, 2006, Edward, McGoldrick & Oliver, 2006). To develop such capabilities at least two factors need to be addressed: defining 'creativity' and thinking about how to teach it. This paper has two aims; firstly to consider the idea that creativity is a process (Morgan, 2012) of changing habits (Koestler, 1964, McWilliam and Sandra Haukka, 2008) that is inherently traumatic (Peirce, 1940) because it involves taking risks with habits which have previously proven useful and comforting. The centrality of trauma and risk raises concerns if creativity is to become a standard graduate attribute; concerns for students asked to take risk and the concern that the university is traditionally adverse to risk-taking. Secondly, a technique for teaching how to be creative derived from Russian Formalism is considered. Ostranenie, or making strange might be deployed with the aim of teaching students a technique for habit breaking Language eng Field of Research 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2012, Australian Association for Research in Education and the Asia Pacific Educational Research Association Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30063704 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Open Access Collection Deakin Learning Futures   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 29 May 2014, 14:49:49 EST Tue, 03 Jun 2014, 11:22:30 EST Thu, 05 Jun 2014, 10:08:02 EST Wed, 11 Jun 2014, 14:31:12 EST Thu, 28 Aug 2014, 07:42:22 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 23:47:30 EST Wed, 06 Dec 2017, 06:06:54 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 17:09:08 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 265 Abstract Views, 164 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 29 May 2014, 14:49:49 EST