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Creativity, Culture, and the Digital Revolution: Implications and Considerations for Education

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Although many disciplines within the social sciences have been strongly influenced over the past two decades by sociocultural perspectives, notably education with its emphasis on the learning sciences, research on talent and, more specifically, creativity and entrepreneurship has seen relatively little sociocultural influence. In this chapter, we take one aspect of creative and talent development—the use of technology in educational settings—and explore ways in which digital culture mediates human behavior in new and important ways, as well as how new practices regarding creativity are emerging with and alongside these new technologies.

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    Although we note that much of this work was published in the first half of the twentieth century and only available in English decades later. See also Wertsch (1981).

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Plucker, J.A., McWilliams, J., Alanazi, R.A. (2016). Creativity, Culture, and the Digital Revolution: Implications and Considerations for Education. In: Glăveanu, V. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46344-9_25

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