Creative performances and gifted education: Studies from art education

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No accessFULL TEXTAustralasian Journal of Gifted EducationOther Journal Article01 December 2017Creative performances and gifted education: Studies from art education Authors: Kerry Thomas Authors: Kerry Thomas Honorary Associate Professor, School of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia, email: [email protected] Google Scholar More articles by this author SectionsAboutView PDFExport CitationsAdd to FavouriteAdd to FavouriteCreate a New ListNameCancelCreate ToolsTrack CitationsCreate Clip ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedIn COPY LINK Abstract This paper acknowledges that there is widespread support in Gifted Education for students' creative aptitudes to be identified as a domain that includes imagination, originality, fluency, and problem solving. I explore where and when these concepts originated and briefly identify how they are represented in Gifted Education. Then various exogenetic factors are considered that contribute to students' realising creative ends, which are often overlooked in educational literature. Drawing on an art education historical archive and my ethnographic research in visual arts education, I show how practice, field dependence, and reciprocity in the reality of social relations in creative classrooms between teachers and students figure more prominently than might be thought. The paper is intended to open up further discussion about some commonly held assumptions of natural creative ability. Full Text DOI Previous article Next article RelatedDetails View PUBLICATION DETAILSJournal:Australasian Journal of Gifted EducationISSN:1323-9686Page Range:5-15First Page:5Last Page:15Source:Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, Vol. 26, No. 2, Dec 2017: 5-15Date of Publication:December 2017Date Last Modified:05 September 2019 12:02Date Last Revised:01 November 2017Volume:26Issue:2SubjectGifted children--EducationCreative ability in childrenArt--Study and teachingEthnologyEthnographic films METRICS Downloaded 8 times Copyright© Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented, 2017Download PDFLoading ...