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Schizoanalysis of Creativity within the Korean Educational Context
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- Author / Creator
- Park, Jiae
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In the South Korean education system, creativity has been recognized as a key strategy that enables the people of South Korea to survive in times of change and to gain an edge in the global society. Curriculum designers, textbook developers, and teachers have transformed educational practices to foster creativity in students’ minds, and students have responded accordingly. However, a series of movements in this connection have not actualized the virtual in a new way; rather represented certain images of creativity through the integration of desires into an already existing system. Given this situation, mapping the complex assemblage of South Korean education can serve a pedagogical purpose of improving the ethics of life by seeking the possibility for counter-actualization that is always-already part of the territory and breaking away from the dogmatic ideas of creativity. Thus, this study attempts to detect creativity assemblage by adopting schizoanalysis used by Deleuze and Guattari (1983, 1987). Schizoanalysis demonstrates how an assemblage develops among heterogeneous forces and how certain assemblages suppress the flow of desires, while promoting lines of flight that escape such oppression. It is necessary for schizoanalysis to be cross-sectional, so this study collected various data such as education policy documents, academic journals, textbooks, class materials, documentaries, and popular cultures. The study procedures begin with investigating how heterogeneous forces within South Korean education form and transmit “creativity” as an order-word. Thereafter, is the exploration of how creativity assemblage intervenes in the desires and bodies of students. The study then turns its attention to examining the desires that are drawn into and paranoically invested into the creativity assemblage for the dominant values, while simultaneously exploring the molecular movements breaking through from it. The results show that the creativity assemblage in South Korean education has patternized differences and amorphous energies into molar categories or stratified lines such as “career paths.” It has tethered students’ connections to the world with the code “utility” and an image of a “human.” Youths nevertheless escaped to a holey space where the regulation of the nation could not reach (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987) and created their own new perceptual strategies and practices. The significance of this study is to reveal the way in which discursive and material repetitions related to creativity inform upon subjective formations and the political aspects thereof. It also lays the foundation for unlocking the variables bound within the existing concepts of creativity and inspiring unconventional ways of thinking by encountering molecular flows that are not captured in an institutional setting.
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- Graduation date
- Fall 2022
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Library with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.