Re-evaluating Creativity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Lili Hernández-Romero

   Pages 1-23

3. The Obstruction of Personal Creativity

   • Lili Hernández-Romero

   Pages 25-50

4. Re-evaluating Creativity: A Basic Map to Individual Qualities

   • Lili Hernández-Romero

   Pages 51-78

5. Re-evaluating Creativity: A Step Further in the Review of the Self

   • Lili Hernández-Romero

   Pages 79-103

6. Re-evaluating Creativity: A Higher State of Consciousness

   • Lili Hernández-Romero

   Pages 105-127

7. Creativity in Education: A Transpersonal Approach (Part I)

   • Lili Hernández-Romero

   Pages 129-155

8. Creativity in Education: A Transpersonal Approach (Part II)

   • Lili Hernández-Romero

   Pages 157-182

9. Autoethnography: A Journey of Blocked and Unblocked Creativity

   • Lili Hernández-Romero

   Pages 183-202

10. Back Matter

    Pages 203-220

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This book proposes a groundbreaking approach to the study of personal creativity, linking this to the analysis of the chakras, or centers of energy, of the subtle system suggested by the Eastern philosophy called Sahaja Yoga. It argues that creativity is to be re-learnt through a process of self-review, a self-examination which is underpinned by the author’s concept of the outsider to the self, a pervasive condition characterized by a tendency to be connected to the outer world at the expense of the inner world. The author analyses creativity from three different but interrelated aspects –the individual, society and education - and maps out a route that may take the individuals into an understanding of blockages in their creative process. It also examines aspects that have contributed to sustain the condition of the outsider to the self, hindering people’s creativity. It argues that the traditional education system is both constricting and releasing factorof creativity. Finally, through the use of auto-ethnography, the author reveals a process of blocked and unblocked creativity. This book is a key read for all those interested in psychology, sociology, education and cultural studies. 

• Individual creativity
• creativity in education
• auto-ethnography
• transpersonal approach
• individual qualities
• self-review

• The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China

  Lili Hernández-Romero

Dr Lili Hernández-Romero is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. She has two edited volumes and other publications in cultural studies and psychology. She conducts interdisciplinary research about creativity on areas of psychology, sociology and education.

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