Creativity, Freedom and the Crash: How the Concept of Creativity Was Used as a Bulwark against Communism during the Cold War, and as a Means to Reconcile Individuals to Neoliberalism Prior to the Great Recession

Autor/in	Ward, Sophie
Titel	Creativity, Freedom and the Crash: How the Concept of Creativity Was Used as a Bulwark against Communism during the Cold War, and as a Means to Reconcile Individuals to Neoliberalism Prior to the Great Recession
Quelle	In: Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 11 (2013) 3, S.110-126 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-2743
Schlagwörter	Creativity; Freedom; Social Systems; Neoliberalism; Economic Climate; Global Approach; Educational Policy; Employment Potential; World History; Higher Education; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Freiheit; Social system; Soziales System; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Wirtschaftslage; Globales Denken; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Weltgeschichte; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	At first glance, creativity in the classroom and global capitalism have little in common, yet scratch beneath the surface of "creativity" and we find a discourse of economic and cultural freedom that was used as a bulwark against communism during the Cold War, and more recently to reconcile individuals to neoliberalism in the post-Cold War era. This discourse of economic and cultural freedom is evident in various UK government reports and political speeches from the late twentieth century onwards, in which politicians aligned creativity with personal autonomy and cautioned against government interference in the operation of the free market (see for example Blair, 1998; Morris, 2003). The UK's fascination with creativity at the dawn of the new millennium was part of a worldwide interest in innovation and free enterprise. In the words of the Director-General of UNESCO, "Creativity is our hope" (UNESCO, 2006: 5), and faith in creativity as a means to equip individuals for life under global capitalism is a striking feature of contemporary international debate. The aim of this paper is to explore the genesis of the account of creativity as economic and cultural freedom, and to consider how this discourse informed education policy prior to the "Great Recession" (Streeck, 2011), and how the discourse of employability may come to replace it. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Institute for Education Policy Studies. University of Northampton, School of Education, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7AL, UK. Tel: +44-1273-270943; e-mail: ieps@ieps.org.uk; Web site: http://www.jceps.com
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10