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Alfonso Montuori

Alfonso Montuori

Alfonso Montuori, PhD, is a graduate of the University of London. He has been Distinguished Professor in the School of Fine Arts at Miami University of Ohio, and from 1985 to 1986 he taught at the Central South University in China. As principal of Evolutionary Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in executive development and the development of creativity and innovation, Alfonso has consulted on executive and management development, and creativity and innovation, with numerous international corporations, including Procter & Gamble, Network Appliance, Training Vision (Singapore), Pacific Bell, Stentor Group (Canada), Kaiser Permanente, Interstate Insurance, Omnitel-Olivetti (Italy), ENEL (Italy). Alfonso Montuori is Professor and Department Chair of the Transformative Studies Ph.D. and Transformative Leadership M.A. at California Institute of Integral Studies. A graduate of the University of London, he is the author of several books and numerous articles on creativity and improvisation, complexity, and education.

Creative Inquiry

Sat, Jan 30, 2010

In this paper I discuss two educational models; the "Reproductive" and the "Narcissistic," and propose an alternative I call "Creative Inquiry." In Creative Inquiry the goal is to honor the passion, creativity, and transformative process that can be a central part of inquiry. Creative Inquiry views the academic as transformative, and the transformative as grounded in the academic.

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