Educating for Creativity.
1973; Taylor & Francis; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1754-8845
AutoresL. R. DE LA ROCQUE, Estefani Geraldine,
Tópico(s)Art Education and Development
ResumoIn his book Laughing Stock, Bennett Cerf writes that Walter Winchell said of himself that he always praised the first show of a new theatrical season. Who am I, Winchell asked, stone the first cast?1 His pun illustrates the elements of creativity just as the Charles Schulz cartoon Peanuts often does. Take, for example, the series of four pictures showing Snoopy, the beagle, watching Charlie Brown and his friends in confident action. Snoopy thinks as he watches the youngsters, wonder why some of us were born dogs while others were born peopleIs it just pure chance or what is it? Somehow, the whole thing doesn't seem very fair. Then as Snoopy musingly walks away, he says to himself, Why should I have been the lucky one?2 In both the pun and the Peanuts cartoon, the rearrangement of old elements and the new way of looking at a situation produce surprise, and then recognition, a combination that has sometimes been called the ah ha effect of the creative
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