Creative collaboration / Vera John-Steiner.
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TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 261 p.) : portsISBN: 9780198023258 (ebook)Subject(s): Creative thinking | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) | Artistic collaboration | PsychologyGenre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleOnline access: Click to view (3 copies) Summary: What is the true nature of thinking? Can it best be understood as a solitary activity of a lone individual? This book suggests that our grasp of creativity is impoverished because we fail to recognise the vital roles that partnerships, collaborations, friendships, and communities play in our thinking, learning, and understanding. What is the true nature of thinking? Can it best be understood as a solitary activity of a lone individual? Or is thinking, contrary to our assumptions, a collaborative process? In this book, Vera John-Steiner, award-winning author of Notebooks of the Mind, suggests that our grasp of creativity is impoverished because we fail to recognise the vital roles that partnerships, collaborations, friendships, and communities play in our thinking, learning, and understanding.
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Originally published: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index.
What is the true nature of thinking? Can it best be understood as a solitary activity of a lone individual? This book suggests that our grasp of creativity is impoverished because we fail to recognise the vital roles that partnerships, collaborations, friendships, and communities play in our thinking, learning, and understanding. What is the true nature of thinking? Can it best be understood as a solitary activity of a lone individual? Or is thinking, contrary to our assumptions, a collaborative process? In this book, Vera John-Steiner, award-winning author of Notebooks of the Mind, suggests that our grasp of creativity is impoverished because we fail to recognise the vital roles that partnerships, collaborations, friendships, and communities play in our thinking, learning, and understanding.
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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