ABSTRACT
I make them because I have to support my son. When my son is happy, I’m happy. So I try to carve all the time. I see it as a normal kind of work. If I clean, it’s all right. If I carve, it’s all right. Anything I like to do, I’ll just do it.… I look at my work like a job, something I have to do to support my family. (Eva Aliktiluk, Inuit carver)
Systems Approaches
All creativity occurs in a particular time and place. In chapter 3, we discussed Vygotsky’s theories proposing a dialectic relationship between internal and external processes of creativity: creativity was required to build individual understandings and insights regarding the surrounding culture, and creativity allowed innovation and change in the culture itself. Th is embedding of creativity in culture, rather than simply in the cognitive or emotional processes of individuals, is the basis of systems or confl uence theories, the most infl uential theories studied today.
