Book chapter
The more things change, the more they stay the same: creativity as the next colonial turn
A companion to research in education, (pt. III), pp.293-296
Springer
2013
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Abstract
The emergence of creativity as a master discourse variously promises benefits, threatens loss, and for some, holds no change. In response to Hay and Kapitzke, this response piece argues that what is promised as new in a discourse of creativity is actually a perpetuation of imperialism and colonialism as experienced by Aboriginal peoples. Drawing on the example of the discourses of ecological and sustainable development, I examine how the underlying paradigms and knowledge regimes remain unchallenged and therefore, unchanged, and thus serve to re-inscribe the erasure, exclusion and silencing of Aboriginal peoples. The discourse of creativity serves not as a vehicle of social, political, economic and educational transformation but of re-invention of previous master discourses. Thus the caution: that as things change creatively, the more they creatively stay the same?
Details
- Title
- The more things change, the more they stay the same: creativity as the next colonial turn
- Creators
- Karen L Marten - Southern Cross University
- Contributors
- Alan D Reid (Editor of compilation)E Paul Hart (Editor of compilation)Michael A Peters (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- A companion to research in education, (pt. III), pp.293-296
- Publisher
- Springer; Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Identifiers
- 2470; 991012821399702368
- Copyright
- © 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education; School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter