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Psychology of Cultivating Creativity in Teaching and Learning

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This chapter calls for reflection on contemporary knowledge of creativity and highlights the neglected aspects of understanding of creativity: being, life, ontology, and existence. This chapter reviews the existing theories of creativity which are multiplicity in orientations. It proposes a framework of cultivating creativity which includes the systems view, constructive processes, creativity for the common good, and creativity for life.

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Tan, AG. (2013). Psychology of Cultivating Creativity in Teaching and Learning. In: Tan, AG. (eds) Creativity, Talent and Excellence. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4021-93-7_3

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