At finde frem til det uforudsigelige:Etnografiske fortællinger om elevers kreative processer i skolen

Artiklen eksemplificerer feltarbejdsmetoders betydning for at undersøge og begrebsliggøre kreativitet i skolekontekster (Saltofte 2010, 2012a). Antropologiske feltarbejdsmetoder er designet til at leve sig ind i andres oplevelse af verden og dermed kunne tilgodese uforudsigelighed. Metodedesignet må, for at undersøge og beskrive kreative processer, indebære mulighed for at studere såvel interaktionelle processer som strukturelle forhold. Feltarbejde præsenteres som en erfaringsproces, der indebærer at finde begreber for det uforudsigelige. ”Kreative processer” analyseres ud fra indsigt i såvel feltens eksplicitte betegnelse og implicitte anerkendelse. Der fremanalyseres en forskel mellem, hvad der ved projektarbejde anerkendes af skolen som institution, og hvad der anerkendes blandt elever. Det institutionelt anerkendte kreative fremstår i kraft af feltarbejdet, som noget elever kan opnå ved at tilføje produkter fra skolens musisk kreative fag

"We want to make it cool to be a choir girl":An anthropological investigation of creativity in forming a choir identity

Members of the Danish MidWest Girls’ Choir and their conductor have the aim of creating unique expressive forms. As a consequence, the girls’ work has worked to develop new forms of singing and performance. The choir seeks to find an identity that distinguishes them from traditional church choirs and thereby recreate ‘choir girls’ as something other than ‘well behaved’ and ‘disciplined’, both in their learning processes and in forming their image as a performing choir not related to a church. This paper analyses the role of novelty as process and ‘product’ in an identity-creating process in the social community of singers. Creativity is in this article seen as the collective processes of becoming skilled and of demonstrating distinction from the established discipline of classic choir singing. The choir's identity-forming process is based on creating and being engaged in a different kind of rehearsal, performances and thereby the ‘respectable’ choir image generally