@mastersthesis {163556,
	title = {Reframing Creativity as the Biography of an Idea: Developing Learning Narratives that Describe Creativity as a Distributed and Participatory Process},
	year = {2014},
	type = {Ed.D. Dissertation},
	abstract = {Fostering creativity through education has long been a priority. Despite this imperative, many educators and policymakers retain traditional, individual-based understandings of creativity that are both out of synch with contemporary systems-based creativity theory and incongruous with the increasing emphasis on group invention and geographically distributed teams seen in business, education, and government. Through this qualitative investigation of group-generated ideas at the Boston ArtScience Prize{\textemdash}an afterschool program committed to the development of creative ideas at the cutting edge of the arts and science{\textemdash}this study establishes an empirically grounded theoretical framework that provides multiple pathways to creative participation for a wide variety of learners within an array of content areas. The study examines three core questions: (1) What are the observable ways individuals participate in and contribute to the ongoing development of group-generated creative ideas? (2) What types of individual and group learning take place during the development of group-generated creative ideas? (3) How does what individuals and groups learn throughout the process of developing group-generated creative ideas inform and influence the evolution of the ideas being developed? By chronicling the unfolding histories{\textemdash}or {\textquotedblleft}biographies{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}of creative ideas, I track the evolutionary arcs of {\textquotedblleft}Reverse Outlet{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}Static Fashion{\textquotedblright} two group-generated ideas. The histories of these ideas serve as learning narratives that describe the various ways in which individuals participate in the development of creative ideas{\textemdash}and the learning that accrues to those individuals along the way.},
	author = {Edward P. Clapp}
}
