Search results for "Creativity"

Contemporary art in higher education: creative pedagogies in political economy

2019

Abstract We propose that contemporary art, which reflects the problems and attitudes of our times, can be used as a way of promoting creativity in disciplines that are not traditionally associated with the arts. Whilst contemporary art is being used as a learning and teaching aid in higher education in a small number of disciplines, it is not normally used in disciplines dominated by rational discourse; an example is economics, on which we focus. We begin by reviewing the literature on art, education and creativity. We then perform an activity with students taking political economy. Students are given the task of selecting a work of contemporary art which “speaks” to them about political ec…

Valoración de la competencia digital en alumnos con rendimiento alto en Perú

2020

El desarrollo de la competencia digital constituye un reto crítico e impostergable para la sociedad actual y una emergente área de trabajo e investigación educativa. Con la finalidad de dar soporte empírico al diseño de políticas educativas, este trabajo busca conocer cuáles son las expectativas que tiene un grupo de alumnos de educación superior con rendimiento alto y limitadas condiciones económicas, los becarios del programa 'Beca 18' del gobierno peruano, sobre los factores que caracterizan la competencia digital, así como conocer las diferencias socioeducativas asociadas a esta percepción. Para ello, se empleó el Cuestionario de Competencias Digitales en Educación Superior (CDES) a una…

Simia manu facta: el selfie de Naruto y los márgenes de la creatividad

2019

El presente artículo estudia el selfie del mono Naruto y lo pone en relación con temas de la Historia del Arte como el automatismo de la imagen fotográfica, el tópico clásico ars simia naturae y la creatividad en los tiempos del posthumanismo. El artículo analiza como el selfie realizado por un mono revela una serie de problemas que se han mantenido constantes en la historia del arte y que afecta a aquellas imágenes obtenidas en los márgenes (artísticos, técnicos, sociales o humanos) y su lucha por ser integradas en un canon.

A metabolism of Adam and Eve: Damien Hirst meets Edvard Munch

2016

Sari Kuuva, University of Jyvaskyla Sari Kuuva, PhD (in cognitive science, 2007 and art history, 2010) is a post-doctoral researcher who works at the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Jyvaskyla. She has studied the relationship between art, aesthetics and psychology, particularly the concept of the symbol and the problematics of experiencing and creating visual art. Among Kuuva’s main publications relating to the art of Edvard Munch are: Symbol, Munch and Creativity: Metabolism of Visual Symbols (University of Jyvaskyla 2010); ‘Emotional creativity in art: case scream’ in Mind and Matter: Selected Papers of Nordic 2009 Conference for Art Historians (Helsinki, Socie…

Mirando la esfera de las horas: literatura, tiempo y antifascismo en el Bienio Negro

2019

This text attempts to be an invitation to think about a temporal experience that claims to be historically thought in order to articulate the resistance against fascism. First of all, I will introduce the discussion of the definition of the republican project, by studying the implications of the term it applied to itself: revolution. With this, I will introduce Ehrenburg’s view of the tensions of the time as a temporary pathology. Later, I will outline the antifascist political culture through the magazines Linea and Nueva Cultura. Then, I will approach Historia de un dia (Sender et al., 1935) and explain the link between the representations of time and the people. Afterwards, I will procee…

The school theatre as a place of cultural learning: the case of Soviet Latvia (1960s–1980s)

2017

AbstractThe goal of this article is to reveal how through school theatre activities under authoritarian rule, changes took place in pupil knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviour regarding culture, namely, how the process of cultural learning occurs. I use a historical case study, specifically the case of the Valmiera School Theatre, which was the leading theatre group, not only in Soviet Latvia, but also in the entire Soviet Union. My primary sources are eight unstructured interviews, 20 published memoirs, articles in the press, theatre programmes, and photographs. One part of Soviet pedagogy was aesthetic upbringing, which was implemented through state-funded collectives, including sch…

Forbidden and sublime forest landscapes: narrated experiences of Latvian national partisan women after World War II

2015

At the beginning of the Cold War, tens of thousands of Baltic people headed for the forests. It was the largest and longest such experience of human and forest interaction in the history of the three Baltic countries. The forest was turned into a political concept and had abruptly become a doubly sensitive zone: to the authorities it was a space of revolt subject to their control; to the locals, the forests were transformed into sites of both resistance and shelter when life was endangered. Based on recorded life story interviews, this article examines how women experienced the changes in their native landscapes after World War II in the occupied Baltic states, and what it meant for them to…

Immagini mentali, creatività e schizofrenia.

2011

Interaction affordances in traditional instruments and tablet computers: A study of children’s musical group creativity

2019

In order to promote children’s collaborative musical creativity in new digital environments, we need a better understanding not only of the sound production capabilities provided by the new digital tools, but also of the interaction affordances involved. This study focuses on the interactional patterns emerging in children’s musical creativity, comparing creative group processes on iPad tablet computers (with GarageBand software) to processes on traditional musical instruments. Both instrumentations were assigned to five groups of four 10–12-year-olds for creating sound landscapes for a “space” movie. The traditional instrument groups’ processes were characterized by peer teaching as well …

Improvising on Emotion Terms: Students’ Strategies, Emotional Communication, and Aesthetic Value

2021

Studies in musical improvisation show that musicians and even children are able to communicate intended emotions to listeners at will. To understand emotional expressivity in music as an art form, communicative success needs to be related to improvisers’ thought processes and listeners’ aesthetic judgments. In the present study, we used retrospective verbal protocols to address college music students’ strategies in improvisations based on emotion terms. We also subjected their improvisations to expert ratings in terms of heard emotional content and aesthetic value. A qualitative analysis showed that improvisers used both generative strategies (expressible in intramusical terms) and imagina…