The Invention of Childhood Creativity: Colonialities and the Production of Difference (Routledge Cultural Studies in Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education)

By: Cat Martins

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781040227831
Related ISBNs:: 9780367503642, 9781003049647, 9781040227824
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/15/24
Copyrighted By:: Taylor & Francis, The right of Cat Martins to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Education, Philosophy, Sociology
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