Mikkel Snorre Wilms Boysen
To Know the Way to the Unknown A SemiExperimental Study on the Implication of Skills and Knowledge for Creative Processes in Higher Education
1607 - 1624
2017
11
6
International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10007663
https://publications.waset.org/vol/126
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
From a theoretical perspective, expertise is generally considered a precondition for creativity. The assumption is that an individual needs to master the common and accepted rules and techniques within a certain knowledgedomain in order to create something new and valuable. However, real life cases, and a limited amount of empirical studies, demonstrate that this assumption may be overly simple. In this article, this question is explored through a number of semiexperimental case studies conducted within the fields of music, technology, and youth culture. The studies indicate that, in various ways, expertise plays an important part in creative processes. However, the case studies also indicate that expertise sometimes leads to an entrenched perspective, in the sense that knowledge and experience may work as a path into the wellknown rather than into the unknown. In this article, these issues are explored with reference to different theoretical approaches to creativity and learning, including actornetwork theory, the theory of blind variation and selective retention, and Csikszentmihalyi’s system model. Finally, some educational aspects and implications of this are discussed.
Open Science Index 126, 2017