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Interdisciplinary Invigoration of Creativity Studies
Author(s) -
Ambrose Don
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/jocb.205
Subject(s) - creativity , field (mathematics) , engineering ethics , globalization , fundamentalism , sociology , work (physics) , interdisciplinarity , epistemology , social science , political science , psychology , engineering , social psychology , philosophy , mechanical engineering , mathematics , politics , law , pure mathematics
The forces of globalization are magnifying the importance of interdisciplinary creative work. While the field of creativity studies always has been more open to interdisciplinary idea borrowing than many other fields, it can and should do more interdisciplinary synthesizing. This article begins with a discussion of the rationale for encouraging interdisciplinary work in the field and then explores several examples of constructs imported from various disciplines that can enrich theory and research in creativity studies. These constructs include market fundamentalism from economics, and networked science from various STEM fields. Some other candidates for importation also are discussed briefly.