VOLUME 2(3) • 2014
“INTERNET UNIVERSALITY:” HUMAN RIGHTS AND PRINCIPLES FOR THE INTERNET
ABSTRACT. This paper details proposals by UNESCO to manufacture and draft a concept of “Internet Universality” that adopts a human-rights framework as a basis for articulating a set of principles and rights for the Internet. The paper discusses various drafts of this concept before examining the Cha..
THE CREATIVE CHILD: CONSTRUCTING CREATIVITY THROUGH EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN MODERN AMERICA
ABSTRACT: This article examines how the ideal of the creative child was constructed within public and professional discourse through the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, with a focus on the growth of the kindergarten movement in the United States. It argues that the creative child was not ..
FROM TIGER TO HOUSE CAT: THE CONCEPT OF CREATIVITY IN BELGIAN CATHOLIC EDUCATION (1930–1980)
ABSTRACT The concept of creativity is hugely popular in education, but the way it is used to defend dissimilar and sometimes even opposing paradigms baffles observers. The author argues that the use of the concept of creativity within education cannot be understood without taking into account its hi..
CREATIVITY AS A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT IN BELGIAN EDUCATION: FROM “NEW AND APPROPRIATE” TO “ENTREPRENEURSHIP” (1950–2013)
ABSTRACT: The aim of this article is to study creativity from a different angle, that of the history of the present, in a specific context, namely (primary) education in Belgium, and especially Flanders. Most of creativity research has focused on what creativity is, or how it can be tested. The ques..
CREATIVITY LEARNING IN SCHOOLS: A META-ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS
ABSTRACT. Creativity began to be systematically investigated at the end of the nineteenth century. Fasko in the Creativity Journal in 2001 pointed to ten conditions that seem to contribute to and or support creativity in education and that can help create a climate of mutual respect and acceptance b..
DISRUPTING THE CONSENSUS: CREATIVITY IN EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSES AS A TECHNOLOGY OF GOVERNMENT
ABSTRACT. According to policy research, Europe will achieve the cutting edge of global competition through a strong investment in creativity. However, I argue that this critical ingredient is not a neutral nor a natural concept in thinking about progress or the individual. As a trait historically ma..
FOUR WORDS OF PRIVILEGE
ABSTRACT. This article uses four levels of thought within Dogon epistemology to explore scientific, cultural, historical, symbolic, and spiritual questions of privilege. Privilege is typically seen as embodied in affect and attitudes, in what one notices and ignores, in how one acts and carries ones..
NOTES ON CYBER-LUDDISM
ABSTRACT. We [who are analyzing the process] know that computer world(s) exist, that they touch and shake us up in many ways, but do we inquire how they came to exist? Or, if they have a right to exist, what was their initial purpose? Or, what key meanings do they have when they are essentially and ..