Browsing by Subject "facilitating creativity"

The purpose of this research is to explore the concept of creativity and its significance in the context of education. The investigation was mainly guided by the theoretical approach of Vlad Glăveanu and Ronald Beghetto who define creativity as an experience that involves novel encounters between a person and the world. This approach focuses not on the outcome of one’s creative work or creative abilities but rather on an individual as a unique being. Creativity as an experience can be analysed in the light of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1987) who explore the concepts of rhizome and becoming. Rhizome refers to a plant that spreads its horizontal stems and grows irregularly in all directions. Creativity seems to ‘‘grow’’ as a rhizome – it can be seen as an experience that unfolds unpredictably and irregularly in unknown directions. Moreover, creativity can be understood as a transformative movement, called by Deleuze and Guattari becoming. Drawing on these theories, my inquiry investigates what is creativity as a rhizomatic experience of becoming, how does it unfold and what happens during this experience. To answer these questions, I decided to use a/r/tography as a methodology and conduct an art experiment as a research method. The essence of the art experiment was the creation of installation art together with a 7-years-old boy. It was an a/r/tographic inquiry that combined artistic practice, research practice, and teaching practice. The pivotal outcome of my a/r/tographic inquiry is, in fact, the art experiment itself, and its verbal and visual presentation as they illustrate what occurs during the creative experience. Along with this, the inquiry brought into light theoretical insights, artistic insights, and educational insights, which all indicate that creativity can be indeed viewed as a rhizomatic experience of becoming.