Volume 18 · Number 2 ·
Pages 311–312
Beyond the Big Fish: Embracing the Fluidity of Creativity in Embodied, Embedded, and Enacted Processes
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Abstract
Open peer commentary on the article “Catching the Big Fish: A 4E-Cognition Approach to Creativity in STEAM Education” by Ronnie Videla, Tomas Veloz & María Carolina Pino. Abstract: I look at the implications of the 4E approach to understanding creativity. I argue that the focus on originality and ideation (even if both are understood as extended and distributed) reflects a lingering Cartesian dualism rather than a commitment to understanding creativity as it unfolds in the world.
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Ross W. (2023) Beyond the big fish: Embracing the fluidity of creativity in embodied, embedded, and enacted processes. Constructivist Foundations 18(2): 311–312. https://constructivist.info/18/2/311
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