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Educational systems always derive from cultural anticipations as well as expectations. There are abundant differences between Eastern and Western educational systems for they share a different culture which can reflects the pros and cons of themselves. Culture can also decide which parts of mankind activities are considered as the expressions of creativity. Are there any same meanings of Eastern and Western creativity for the pedagogy? How should we understand the word “creativity”? In eastern countries, especially the mainland China, what is the creativity in the current pedagogy? Countless researchers have put forward such questions by numerous different methods, and they have offered me sufficient hints figuring the creativity under different circumstance, such as mainland China, America and so on. I make a comparison among them and figure out the Chinese traits in the arts pedagogy in mainland China.
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Big “C” creativity = socially valued creativity
Little “c” = valued at the individual level.
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Junting, C., Arunkumar, N. Quantified comparative analysis of innovation and innovation based on multi orientation from the perspective of education and culture. Cluster Comput 22 (Suppl 2), 4711–4718 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-018-2317-6
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