Revealing Creativity, 1st ed. 2020 Exploration in Transnational Education Cultures Creativity Theory and Action in Education Series, Vol. 5

Revealing Creativity: Exploration in Transnational Education Cultures explores the recovery and fostering of creativity under educational constraint. This longitudinal global study of diverse education populations in China, Canada, and Australia offers application of the 4-C Creativity Model through experiential activities and exploratory interviews within classrooms and other learning spaces. Transnational in scope, this book describes an original innovative method, process, and tool for addressing obstacles to creativity in educational environments and within the self that constitute a significant challenge to practice. Through an immersive encounter with a validated creativity model, diverse cultural groups were guided to interpret the 4-C classification system and uncover their latent potential as creators. For their own purposes, readers can adapt the dynamic model-as-method process for releasing and revealing creativity within accountability-bound competitive cultures.

Carol A. Mullen, PhD, is Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Tech, USA, and a J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar alumnus, awarded twice for research in different countries. Dr. Mullen is an internationally acclaimed award-winning scholar and teacher whose research in education encompasses mentoring, creativity, teacher development, leadership, and globalism using social justice lenses. Carol’s books include Canadian Indigenous Literature and Art (2020, Brill); Creativity Under Duress in Education? (2019, Springer, edited); Creativity and Education in China (2017, Routledge); and Education Policy Perils (2016, Routledge, coedited). Forthcoming are Revealing Creativity: Exploration in Transnational Education Cultures (Springer, authored) and the Handbook of Social Justice Interventions in Education (Springer, edited). She has published 25 academic books, 152 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, 16 guest-edited special issues of journals, and many invited articles. Her doctorate in teacher education is from the University of Toronto/Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (Toronto, Canada).

Introduces a new methodological framework and tool that serves as a translation, interpretation, and application of the 4-C Creativity theory

Bridges theory with method, practice and action

Reveals the power of innovative intervention for uncovering and releasing creativity in situations of constraint

Explores how to foster belief in one’s creative capacity