Paradoxes of Creativity: Toward a Creative Society

서지정보

ㆍ발행기관 : 한국영재학회 ㆍ수록지정보 : 영재교육연구
ㆍ저자명 : Bom Mo Chung

목차

Collectivistic vs. Individualistic
Instrumental vs. intrinsic
Freezing vs. Unfreezing
School vs. Home
Creative Social Climate

영어 초록

Creativity is a man's impingement upon the God's right. For in the beginning God was the creator and man the created. and now man arrogantly asserts that by being creative be too can be a creator. But God. I believe. would not mind his assertion - because after all God created man to be existentially somewhere between the creator and the created so that the most crowning characteristic of man is just such creativity, the apex of the tree of knowledge. Besides, some might even argue that God the creator himself may well have been created by the imagination of man. Thus. begins the twisted paradox of creativity.
Creativity is a trait or an act that harbors many paradoxes from the beginning. It is an act of man who is both created and creating at the same time. It is a highly irrational or supra-rational flare of mind that tries to reach a higher level of rationality. It relishes disorder in order to discover an order in it. It does not come at times of intense concentration but rather dawns upon all of a sudden at times of total relaxation.
Understanding some of the paradoxical nature of creativity should throw light on how we should deal with It. how to develop it and even how to thwart it consciously or unconsciously. Creativity is a very vulnerable entity. Though it is. like love, a many splendid thing, it is also an act, like freedom, that can be very easily suppressed. We need a creative policy for the development of creativity based upon a thorough understanding of these paradoxes. Common sense policies would not accomplish the purpose.

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