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Failure, as gender and post-structuralist theorists Sara Ahmed (2010) and Jack Halberstam (2011) have argued, can be a place of considerable opportunity. If neoliberalism seeks to control and foreclose, sites of productive failure offer interruptions into the neoliberal project, and an invitation to creativity to start something new, something as-yet uncontrolled. I have previously argued this point regarding the value of creativity education, that
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Harris, A. (2016). Find Patterns. In: Creativity and Education. Creativity, Education and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57224-0_2
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