Published : 2023-11-28 — Updated on 2023-11-28

A Creative Biographical Breakthrough: The Concept and Conditions

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The article describes the category of a creative biographical breakthrough understood as a process, sequence of experiences, events and situations that lead to a change and transformation in an individual’s biography. The state achieved as a result of such a biographical breakthrough initiates or develops subjective creative activities, and enriches the creative development potential, which may or may not be revealed in a specific product. It may be, for example, a higher state of self-awareness, or a change from a conservative life orientation into a creative one. This category has been inscribed in the systemic, cultural and humanistic theories of creativity, in the concepts of the creative attitude and everyday creativity. There has been a search for justifications for constructing the concept of a creative biographical turning point and for its introduction to the pedagogical narratives of creativity. The article also sets out the importance of a multicultural environment. It emphasizes dialogical relations with the Other as being particularly conducive to creative breakthroughs. It highlights the importance of subjective forces, as well as an individual’s personality, talents, abilities, intellect and character, to the emergence of a creative turning point.

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creativity, biography, creative biographical breakthrough, determinants of creativity



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Cudowska, A. (2023). A Creative Biographical Breakthrough: The Concept and Conditions. Biografistyka Pedagogiczna, 8(1), 505–524. https://doi.org/10.36578/BP.2023.08.16

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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.

Project duration: 2023-2024.

The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN

Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1