This article pursues two tasks. The first is to clarify the value and productivity of Williams’s Keywords: a vocabulary culture society (first edition 1976, second expanded 1983a) for project Cultural Studies. clarification helped, I argue, by reading it alongside Vološinov’s Marxism philosophy language (published in Russian 1929, translated into English 1973). related task speculative developm...


 This paper describes the community service program carried out to enhance creativity and entrepreneurship of orphans in Assalam Shobuur orphanage. The was conducted six days divided into two sub-activities: a flannel flower bouquet workshop; an workshop focusing on business promotion. offered tutorials while used lecture methods, case studies, brainstorming. workshops were run for twenty...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among creativity, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation and creative home environment. For this study there were 127 young children subjects under age five from 10 kindergarten classes. Data gathered were analyzed for the verification of the hypothesis of this subject for using SPSS 18.0 program. The results of this study were as follows: F...

Musicians have been used extensively to study neural correlates of long-term practice, but no studies have investigated the specific effects of training musical creativity. Here, we used human functional MRI to measure brain activity during improvisation in a sample of 39 professional pianists with varying backgrounds in classical and jazz piano playing. We found total hours of improvisation ex...

Today’s concept of art is intimately linked with creativity. The type of political system affects creativity: an authoritarian system tends to yield more diversity in quality, but less diversity in the type of art produced. Centralized political systems tend to favour large ‘monuments’. By way of contrast, a federal system increases artists’ freedom by offering multiple sources of support. Gove...

We investigate the performance of non-expert judges in using leading computational poetry evaluation metrics to evaluate poetry written by humans. We find that regardless of the model used, non-expert judges are very poor at using metrics to evaluate creativity, even displaying the reverse of the desired rating pattern, preferring novice poetry to professional poetry. We discuss likely reasons ...