On Creativity and Social Change.

Powell, Mary Clare

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ERIC Number: EJ481438

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1994

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On Creativity and Social Change.

Powell, Mary Clare

Journal of Creative Behavior, v28 n1 p21-32 1994

A creative writing program for disadvantaged women in Chicopee, Massachusetts, is described. The program's effects in empowering the women resulted in the women making a number of specific changes in their lives. Reasons for the workshop's success are discussed, as is the power of the arts to effect social change. (DB)

Descriptors: Adults, Creative Writing, Disadvantaged Environment, Empowerment, Females, Individual Development, Personal Autonomy, Self Expression, Social Change, Workshops

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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