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Creative Learning and the Possible

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Creative learning serves as a vehicle for the possible. Creative learning moves people from what is currently known to new ways of thinking and acting. More specifically, creative learning refers to a process that results in new and personally meaningful understandings for oneself and others. The purpose of this entry is to provide an overview of the theoretical concept of creative learning and its posited relationship to the possible. Research and theoretical implications are also discussed.

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    I want to thank the editor of the encyclopedia for requesting clarification on whether creative learning is limited to mini-c creativity. It is important to stress that although creative learning may often be experienced at a more subjective and ideational level (e.g., mini-c creativity, Beghetto and Kaufman 2007), it is also possible that the outcomes of creative learning can be represented in behavioral and material artifacts, which can be recognized by others as creative contributions (e.g., little-c or larger-c creativity, Kaufman and Beghetto 2009).

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    It can be argued from a sociocultural perspective that the socio-cultural does not simply influence individuals from the “outside,” but rather that the socio-cultural is interdependent with and co-constitutive of the creative learning process. I want to again thank the editor of the encyclopedia for noting this important sociocultural distinction.

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Beghetto, R.A. (2020). Creative Learning and the Possible. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98390-5_57-1

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