ERIC Number: EJ1483018
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Sep
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0175
EISSN: EISSN-2162-6057
Available Date: 2025-06-23
Social Change Creativity: Proposing a New Domain for Equity, Social Justice, and Human Rights
Journal of Creative Behavior, v59 n3 e70042 2025
This paper extends the growing conversations around creativity's metamorphic capacities for good to propose and explore Social Change Creativity (SCC) as a distinct creative domain in which individuals and communities engage in the creative process to combat social injustice and manifest equitable social outcomes. SCC involves the use of creative strengths and imagination to promote social equity and justice. Drawing on the Amusement Park Theoretical Model of Creativity, the authors position SCC as a domain of creativity within a broader prosocial area. They then outline microdomains, evaluation strategies, applications, and a field agenda.
Descriptors: Social Change, Creativity, Social Justice, Civil Rights, Prosocial Behavior, Evaluation Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1University at Albany, Lynnfield, Massachusetts, USA; 2University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

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