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“Inspired to Be Creative?”: Persons, Objects, and the Public Pedagogy of Museums
Author(s) -
Sabeti Shari
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12094
Subject(s) - creativity , sociology , agency (philosophy) , ethnography , class (philosophy) , pedagogy , aesthetics , visual arts , epistemology , social science , anthropology , psychology , social psychology , art , philosophy
This paper explores an enactment of public pedagogy through the ethnographic study of one museum creative writing class. It questions a theory of creativity that insists it is the properties of objects on display that inspire individuals. On the contrary, I argue that the flows of agency identified by the subjects themselves suggest creativity is multidirectional and that inspiration lies not in the objects but in the persons with whom those objects are shared.