Dear Jenny
"the possibility that it will not be possible to use our tools of
language, wonderful though they are, to get at this thing called
creativity "
This links to the importance of 'tacit knowledge'. See my attached
article, which is in the press.
Lewis Elton
Jenny Moon wrote:
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> I have felt, in this discussion, that there is an underlying sense that there is an entity that is called creativity.....that ultimately we can fathom completely by clever and precise use of language. How about the possibility firstly that there is no one entity called creativity - it is a figment in the mind of each of us, whether it is derived from personal sensations of being creative at times, or from research of literature or of the behaviour of others?
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> Also, how about the possibility that it will not be possible to use our tools of language, wonderful though they are, to get at this thing called creativity? I think that, in general, but perhaps specifically in HE (well - all areas of HE but art and design), we assume that we can deal with anything, and come to an understand of anything through language. In recent years, I find I have increasing doubts about this. I think that much of what we learn and work with is what I call 'the unspoken'. It cannot be reached or transmitted in language, except perhaps, in example or in the development of constrasts.
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> We have certainly been working with example, but maybe some contrasts would be interesting - what I might see as creative in contrast to what I see as not creative. In writing or painting, sometimes I feel creative and other times I slog and do not feel creative. I think that the product may well be the same on both of these occasions - which suggests that one large part of my sense of what creativity is, is a feeling and perhaps a feeling about an outcome.....
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