Creativity, complexity and training: A transdisciplinary approach

Abstract

This research was conducted in the context of university education. It focuses on the application of creativity from a transdisciplinary vision of evolutionary complexity. One of the aims of the study was to explore the phenomenon of creativity from the perspective of complexity in teaching, in order to obtain a general perception of how this concept is understood and applied by experts who investigate and teach it. The specific aim is to identify trends in the didactic application of creativity in the context of university education. The methodology used was based on paradigmatic complementarity (Hashimoto, 2013), with in-depth interviews and surveys administered to faculty researchers of creativity from 14 countries. The tools and techniques used were observation records, validated questionnaires, field notes, audio support  or registration, validation of instruments and triangulation. The most important results of the study lead to the conclusion that, according to the latest trends in epistemology of creativity, the transdisciplinary approach and evolutionary complexity are powerful methodological and practical references for multiple applications in teaching creativity at the university level. The findings hinge around some features that education and college creativity training seem to be adopting, globally comparable to the cross-disciplinary approaches and based on the complexity and consciousness.