Whether or not creativity can be taught is still a contested question, though it really shouldn’t be.
28 Jan 2015
Dallas J Baker
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The idea that creativity cannot be taught is based on two misunderstandings: a misunderstanding of what creativity is and a misunderstanding of what teaching is.
Dallas J. Baker is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Griffith University and an academic in Creative Writing in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University.
He is the founding and now managing editor of Polari Journal, an international, peer-reviewed queer Creative Writing journal. He is currently Assistant Editor, Special Issues of TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses.
Dallas is also a creative writer with work published in a wide range of journals and anthologies. In the 1980s he began writing under the nom de plume Dallas Angguish, and still does from time to time. His collection of travel tales, America Divine: Travels in the Hidden South, was published in 2011.
His current research interests are memory and memoir, masculinity, scriptwriting and Creative Writing pedagogy.
