Creativity in Somebody Else's Shoes

• Authors: Kamila Witerska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper describes creativity in role context and how drama features and techniques can stimulate creative thinking. The first part of the article concerns the role of drama as a stimulator by encasing the participant in fiction. Aspects of development are also taken into account and the areas of differences in the use of drama at various stages of development, and thus at different stages of education are highlighted. The second part of the paper is devoted to drama techniques - heuristics based on taking on a role. The last part of the article describes how drama stimulates the process of solving problems and delineates its specificity.

Keywords

EN

Drama; Role; Creative problem solving; Developmental factors

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 227-236

Dates

published

2015-11-01

received

2014-09-17

revised

2015-01-27

accepted

2015-09-07

online

2015-11-26

Contributors

author

Kamila Witerska

• University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz, 64 Rewolucji 1905r St., 90-222 Lodz, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ctra-2015-0022