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Creativity has become such a commonly used term in the past few decades that everyone has formed an opinion about what it means, and there is no need to define it further. In this chapter, however, we are going to use the word in specific ways, so a few words of explanation may be useful to orient the reader. There are three main dichotomies we use, and if these are not clear, what follows might be confusing.
“Reproduced with permission from Perspective” J. Nakamura and M. Csikszentmihalyi “Creativity through the Life Span from an Evolutionary Systems in C. Hoare (Ed.) Handbook of Adult Development and Learning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp 243−254. Copyright © 2006 Oxford University Press”. http://www.oup.com
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Csikszentmihalyi, M., Nakamura, J. (2014). Creativity Through the Life Span from an Evolutionary Systems Perspective. In: The Systems Model of Creativity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9085-7_15
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