A Methodological Walk in the Forest: Critical Creativity and Human Flourishing

International Practice Development in Nursing and Healthcare

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 59-83

  Titchen, Angie ^a,b   Mccormack, Brendan ^b  

^a FONTYS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A Methodological Walk in the Forest Spiralling through the Forest; Critical creativity in practice development (PD) work; Critical creativity PD framework blending critical with creative imagination; Emancipatory PD (EPD) tradition; Fay's subtheory 10 (sub theory of theory 4) and transformative action; Human flourishing theoretical framework in critical creativity worldview; International Practice Development Colloquium (IPDC) cooperative inquiry; Practical activity practitioners picking out features of environment; Praxis and professional artistry; Three key concepts praxis, professional artistry and human flourishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890990698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444319491.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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