Myth of the Muse, The. Douglas Reeves

      

      THE

      MYTH

      OF THE

      MUSE

      Supporting Virtues That Inspire Creativity

      DOUGLAS REEVES & BROOKS REEVES

      Copyright © 2017 by Solution Tree Press

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Reeves, Douglas B., 1953- author. | Reeves, Brooks, author.

      Title: The myth of the muse : supporting virtues that inspire creativity / Douglas Reeves and Brooks Reeves.

      Description: Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016028123 | ISBN 9781935249481 (perfect bound)

      Subjects: LCSH: Creative thinking--Study and teaching. | Creative ability in children.

      Classification: LCC LB1590.5 .R45 2016 | DDC 370.15.7--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016028123

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       To Amy, Mary, and Brooks

      —D.R.

       To Dad, for your patience, enthusiasm, and love

      —B.R.

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Many artists and creativity scholars have guided our thinking in this overwhelming field of inquiry. Listing them in the “References and Resources” section is a woefully inadequate means to recognize their contributions to the field of creativity research and to our work in particular. A few deserve special mention, including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for his pioneering work recognizing common themes in a variety of creative domains, Howard Gardner for challenging much of the prevailing wisdom on creativity in the educational context, and Douglas Hofstadter for creating enduring understandings of how creativity of necessity involves many disciplines and perspectives. Shelley Carson has expanded our conception of the accessibility of creativity to a wider group of practitioners, while Oshin Vartanian, Adam Bristol, and James Kaufman have helped apply the latest evidence from neuroscience to creativity. Ronald Beghetto, James Kaufman, and Tony Wagner have brought the subject to classrooms, schools, and educational systems around the world. Edward Tufte was doing design thinking (that is, linking art, mathematics, history, sociology, politics, and sports in ways that are substantive and beautiful) decades before the term became in vogue. There will be plenty to say about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pablo Picasso, and their creative colleagues later.

      Our publisher, Solution Tree, has been unusually patient in bringing this book to press. It is Doug’s eighth collaboration with this premier educational publisher, and we are grateful for their support, challenging insights, and careful editing. It takes a courageous publisher to bring challenging work to the mainstream of professional educators and leaders around the world, and Solution Tree does this with a commitment to quality that is without peer.

      We are particularly grateful to Douglas Rife, publisher of Solution Tree Press, Jeff Jones, CEO of Solution Tree, and the anonymous reviewers who left our original work and our delicate egos in tatters more than a year before the final work was completed. Although we have done our best to incorporate their thinking into the pages that follow, the errors that remain are solely our responsibility.

      —Douglas Reeves

      —Brooks Reeves

      Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:

      Ronald A. Beghetto

      Associate Professor of Educational Psychology

      Cognition, Instruction, Learning, & Technology Program

      Department of Educational Psychology

      Neag School of Education

      University of Connecticut

      Storrs, Connecticut

      Boon Boonyapat

      Director of Teaching and Learning

      Charles R. Drew Charter School

      Atlanta, Georgia

      Paul Curtis

      Director of Curriculum

      New Tech Network

      Napa, California

      Danah Henriksen

      Assistant Professor

      Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education

      Michigan State University

      East Lansing, Michigan

      Donna Jackson

      Principal

      James A. Jackson Elementary School

      Jackson School of the Arts (K–5)

      Jonesboro, Georgia

      Wesley Manaday

      Principal

      John P. Oldham Elementary School

      Norwood, Massachusetts

      Trisha Riche

      Third-Grade Inclusion Teacher

      Richard L. Brown Elementary School

      Jacksonville, Florida

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