Julie Borup Jensen

Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creativity: Processes of Learning, Creating and Organising

B eh in d t h e S ce n es o f A rt is ti c C re at iv it y Throughout the literature of creative learning, many assumptions and even stereotypes about the artists’ creativity are nurtured, often according to myths going back to the Romanticism. The authors have been investigating and describing outstanding artists’ creativity and learning/working processes, asking the question: how do artists create, learn, and organise their work? This book explores these questions by means of original empirical data (interviews with 22 artists) and theoretical research in the field of the arts and creativity from a learning perspective. Findings shed an original light on how artists learn and create, and how their creative learning and change processes come about, for instance when facilitating and leading creative processes.

Sensing the Problem Instead of Just Talking about it

In the wake of educational reforms in Denmark, starting in 2001, the study programme of social education studies has undergone a so-called ‘academicisation’ process, challenging the students’ formative and identity-building learning processes within the profession. One professional university in Denmark is answering this challenge by focusing on development of arts-based, innovative pedagogies and methods to work with the emotional and bodily aspects of identity development.

Emotions and Learning in Arts-based Practices of Educational Innovation

The present chapter addresses the topic of educators’ emotions in teaching situations when they experiment with and apply arts-based tools to learning and facilitation. Original data are drawn from a qualitative study that observed and described an innovative arts-based development project at a Danish University College.

Kreativitet, innovasjon og entreprenørskap i utdanningssystemene i Norden : Bakgrunn og begrepsinnhold basert på politisk initiering og strategivalg

De nordiske utdannings- og forskningsministre onsker a fremme kreativitet, innovasjon og entreprenorskap i utdannelsene. Dette var bakgrunnen for at ministrene i april 2009 besluttet ...

Arts-Involving Burning Man Festival as Co-Creation in Social Education Studies

The present chapter addresses the topic of co-creation in student learning processes concerning democracy and citizenship in social education studies at a Danish university college, Northern Jutland. The co-creational effects of experimenting with an arts-involving festival, inspired by the Nevada Desert event “Burning Man”, in collaboration with pedagogical staff and residents of local refugee and immigrant institutions and local communities, are investigated by means of socio-cultural and cultural-psychological perspectives on learning processes.