TY - JOUR
T1 - To Democratize, First Decolonize
T2 - Approaches Beyond Eurocentric and Colonial Epistemologies in Creativity
AU - Mehta, Rohit
AU - Henriksen, Danah Anne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 AERA.
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - In response to the special issue on democratizing creative educational experiences (CEE), we conducted a thematic analysis of recent scholarship on creativity and decolonization (2010–2021) and analyzed recurring tensions across literature grounded in Indigenous, Black, feminist, and non-western epistemological perspectives on creativity. We found themes that are not new but are yet to be taken up consistently and credibly in western creativity and education research and practice. For instance, spirituality emerges as a valuable ingredient for creativity, body as inseparable from the mind, dialectic resistance and resilience as acts of creative existence, and non-human agency as essential to the creative process. Informed by these themes, we share implications for research and practice, seeking new spaces inclusive of historically ignored onto-epistemologies.
AB - In response to the special issue on democratizing creative educational experiences (CEE), we conducted a thematic analysis of recent scholarship on creativity and decolonization (2010–2021) and analyzed recurring tensions across literature grounded in Indigenous, Black, feminist, and non-western epistemological perspectives on creativity. We found themes that are not new but are yet to be taken up consistently and credibly in western creativity and education research and practice. For instance, spirituality emerges as a valuable ingredient for creativity, body as inseparable from the mind, dialectic resistance and resilience as acts of creative existence, and non-human agency as essential to the creative process. Informed by these themes, we share implications for research and practice, seeking new spaces inclusive of historically ignored onto-epistemologies.
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U2 - 10.3102/0091732X221084324
DO - 10.3102/0091732X221084324
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85128630829
SN - 0091-732X
VL - 46
SP - 105
EP - 133
JO - Review of Research in Education
JF - Review of Research in Education
IS - 1
ER -