Can We Teach Creativity? Extending Socrates's Criteria to Modern Education

Journal of Aesthetic Education 53 (4):86-98 (2019)
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Creativity is an imperative need of the twenty-first century, and it seems to be a skill that will monopolize interest for many years. It is, in substance, a newly established scientific field and despite attempts to encroach on the science of psychology, its origin and functions have not been probed yet. Still, it continues to be researched, with ever-increasing vigor, almost in every area of science and action, with the main scope of potential exploitation being education. The philosophical foundation of creativity has not reached the depths that one would expect, and most scientists-thinkers (and...

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Christos Kechagias
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