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Creativity, Self-Development and Human Values: A Dialogical Perspective on Promoting a Democratic World

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A Dialogical Approach to Creativity

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The present chapter discusses the close relations between creativity and human values, based on a dialogical paradigm and the study of moral development from a cultural semiotic perspective in Psychology. Conventional approaches to creativity tend to consider creativity as a phenomenon that mainly belongs to the realms of intellectual or artistic achievements and innovative productions. In this chapter, drawing on a dialogical and cultural perspective, I argue for a cultural approach to creativity and analyze the motivational roots of creativity and its role in the promotion of human development as a whole. I also explore the existing interconnections between creativity, the development of the dialogic self and the psychological dimension of ethics and morality). The text contemplates the elaboration, from a cultural and dialogical psychology perspective, of three intertwined issues that I see as necessary to provide the grounds for the arguments I put together in the chapter. In short, I theoretically elaborate on the concepts of value, creativity, dialogical self development, and their systemic interconnections along human ontogenesis, explaining how this may foster democratic relations among people concept.

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    Angela Uchoa Branco

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    Mônica Souza Neves-Pereira

  2. Department of Psychology, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Marina Assis Pinheiro

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Branco, A.U. (2023). Creativity, Self-Development and Human Values: A Dialogical Perspective on Promoting a Democratic World. In: Neves-Pereira, M.S., Pinheiro, M.A. (eds) A Dialogical Approach to Creativity. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11760-2_6

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