Homo Creativus

This book focuses on creativity and showcases a specific approach to creativity. It uses a new 7 C's basis for understanding creativity (creators, creating, cooperation, context, creations, consumption, and curricula). This new approach to creativity is an extension of the 4 'P' approach (person, process, press, and product) which has dominated the literature since the 1960s. In each section, there are two chapters, which illustrate work on the topic and focus on some key issues.

Introduction.- Section 1: Creative Person.- Chapter 2. Cognitive and Conative Profiles of creative people.- Chapter 3: Collaborative Creativity.- Chapter 4 From everyday creativity to eminent cases of creative achievement in professional domains.- Section 2: Creative Process.- Chapter 5: Stages and phases of the creative process.- Chapter 6 Creative process in art, design, literature and science.- Chapter 7 Creative Problem Solving (CPS).- Section 3: Creative Environments or Press.- Chapter 8: Family, scholastic and social contexts for creativity.- Chapter 9: Creativity meets culture: Creative work in national, professional and everyday life domains.- Chapter 10: The place to be: Organizational culture and climate for creativity: Key issues and major trends.- Section: Creative Productions.- Chapter 11: Divergent thinking based measures of creative performance.- Chapter 12: Peer assessed productions and accomplishment-based measures.- Chapter 13: Creative productions in the marketplace.- Chapter 14: Conclusion : Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow : perspectives on creativity.​