General Model of Creativity
Csikszentmihalyi and Wolfe stated that ‘Creativity
can be defined as an idea or product that is original, valued or implemented.’
Systems Model
Csikszentmihalyi said that our environment had two significant
parts; one being a cultural or symbolic part which he refers to as the domain,
and the other a social part, referred to as the field. According to
Csikszentmihalyi creativity can be observed when individuals, domains and
fields interact. However he states that creativity only occurs when a person
changes a domain. This can only take place if the changes are allowed by the
‘gatekeepers’ or the field (Csikzentmihalyi, 2007) . Basically the
systems model for creativity explains that for an idea, creation or whatever it
may be to be seen as creative it must be accepted by the group of people in
that particular field. An example used is of Einstein, within physics a small
number of university professors at the top of that field agreed that Einstein
had creative ideas and from this it was accepted by millions of people that
Einstein was extremely creative even though not everyone understands his ideas.
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