The Concept Of Creativity: Towards An Intergrative Vision Of Creativity In The Psychoeducational Application

• Authors: Roger Anoumou Cofii , Formella Zbigniew

Title variants

PL

Koncepcja kreatywności. W kierunku integralnej wizji kreatywności w aplikacji psychowychowawczej

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Although it is a positive word, always attracting and increasing attention, creativity is a concept that defies definition. As a psychological concept, creativity has resisted unequivocal definition or clear operationalization. Nevertheless, after viewing its etymological and semantic aspects, we focus on some attempts of definitions. As “man’s capacity to produce new ideas, insights, inventions or artistic objects, or the act to create something new, to find original solutions, and the willingness to change or transform the world. Creativity has generated numerous definitions with the problem of the lack of consensus among creativity researchers. This seems more complicated when we focus on creativity in cultural context (be the Western or the Eastern one). However, since differences are not deficits, but rather richness that must be complemented, our proposal is to integrate different cultural criteria and offer a unified vision of the concept, which we illustrate referring to Kharkurin’s Creativity.4in1 model based on the criteria of Novelty, Utility, Aesthetics and Authenticity. This integrative vision is not yet the last possible attempt, so the call for deeper research and better model is still active.

PL

Kreatywność jest pojęciem, które wymyka się łatwemu zdefiniowaniu, choć od zawsze jest przedmiotem dużego zainteresowania. Ta problematyka jest dostrzegalna w koncepcjach psychologicznych, w których nie ma jednoznacznej definicji teoretycznej czy aplikacyjnej na temat koncepcji kreatywnosci. Niemniej jednak, po dokonaniu analizy etymologicznej i semantycznej niektórych aspektów, można podjąć się próby zdefiniowania jej jako zdolności człowieka do realizowania nowych pomysłów, spostrzeżeń, wynalazków, przedmiotów artystycznych lub aktów, w celu stworzenia coś nowego, znalezienia oryginalnego rozwiązania, gotowości do zmiany lub przemiany świata. Pojęcie kreatywność dostarcza licznych problemów koncepcyjnych, a to powoduje brak konsensusu wśród badaczy tego zagadnienia. Problem ten wydaje się najbardziej skomplikowany, gdy skupia się uwagę na kreatywności w kontekście kulturowym (zarówno kultury Zachodu, jak i Wschodu). Ponieważ istniejące różnice są źródłem bogactwa, a nie deficytu, Autorzy artykułu przedstawiają własną propozycję integracji różnych kryteriów kulturowych oraz w miarę jednolitą wizję koncepcji kreatywnosci, którą zawiera, ich zdaniem, model A. Kharkhorina – Creativity.4in1, w oparciu o kryteria: Nowości, Użyteczności, Estetyki i Autentyczności. Ta integracyjna wizja nie jest jeszcze ostatnią możliwą próbą, zaprasza ona zatem do głębszego badania i ulepszania zaproponowanego modelu.

Keywords

EN

Creativity;; Definition;; Conception;; Culture;; Self-actualisation;

PL

kreatywność;; definicja;; koncepcja;; kultura;; samo-aktualizacja;

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Naukowe Franciszka Salezego
• Journal: Seminare. Poszukiwania naukowe
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 97-113

Dates

published

2016-12-31

Contributors

author

Roger Anoumou Cofii

• Università Pontificia Salesiana, Rome (Italy)

author

Formella Zbigniew

• Università Pontificia Salesiana, Rome (Italy)

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DOI

http://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2016.4.08