Creative Contexts: Our Worlds as Actors in the Dynamics of Change

Author:   Michael Hanchett Hanson
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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9783032122827


Pages:   219
Publication Date:   09 January 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Creative Contexts: Our Worlds as Actors in the Dynamics of Change


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This book explores the complex relations of creative work to our material and social environments –Context–, through the lens of the 7 C’s of creativity framework. Leading scholars present groundbreaking research on the roles of our worlds across aspects of creative work, including role identity, metacognition, world building, curriculum design, scale of consumption, community support, and the creative zeitgeist itself. Through nine chapters, context is analyzed as the key dimension affecting all other elements of the 7 C's, crucial to how we learn, what we think, how we are motivated, and –through all of those– what and how we create. This book is essential reading for scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, education, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, design, and innovation management. It will also appeal to practitioners and researchers interested in creative learning environments, curriculum development, and the socio-cultural dimensions of creativity.

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Author:   Michael Hanchett Hanson
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032122827


ISBN 10:   3032122821
Pages:   219
Publication Date:   09 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Invitation.- 2. Creating. The Metacognitive Life of Things: Hylomentation in Metareasoning Contexts.- 3. Creators. The Context and Role Identity of a Creator: A Role-in-Context Approach Using the Dynamic Systems Model of Role Identity.- 4. Collaboration. World Building a New Perspective.- 5. Curriculum. Contextualizing Creativity in the Mathematics Classroom.- 6. Creations. Itinerant Forms: Following the Trail of a Pennsylvania German Cyphering Book.- 7. Consumption. Is Scale a Modern Miracle or the Modern Sin?.- 8. Community. Creativity and Community Wealth: A Discussion with Tara Yosso.- 9. Concluding Conversation. “Creativity” as Context and Creation.

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Michael Hanchett Hanson is a developmental psychologist. He teaches creativity theories and research methods at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA; is a founding board member of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI); member of the Chair Homo Creativus, Fondation de l'Université Paris Cité, and a leading researcher in systems-based analyses of creative development. With Palgrave Macmillan he already published Worldmaking: Psychology and the Ideology of Creativity (2015).

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