THE CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF KERRIE UNSWORTH UNPACKING CREATIVITY–APOLITICAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE

The paper examines Kerrie Unsworth’s theory of unpacking creativity focusing on all aspects including drivers for ideas generation and the degree of problem finding needed at starting point of the creative process. However, in-spite of scholarly need for this review, not much adequate attention is being given especially by scholars. Creativity research has a long and illustrious history, yet the assumptions on which it is based have not been questioned nor interrogated or thoroughly reviewed. Most research assumes that creativity is a unitary construct, thus, hindering a fuller understanding of the phenomenon There arises the need to interrogate Kerrie Unsworth creativity theory along the line of political science perspective. In order to achieve the broad objective of this review, it was situated on methodological plane so as to achieve theoretical unity. Literature that abounds on creativity was analysed using descriptive method of analysis. The finding of this paper indicates that Guilford was originally only studying intellect, it was not strange that he categories as just specific subject of cognitive ability. However, using different type of motivation method, Kerrie Unsworth then broke down creativity into four arch types. The review of Kerrie Unsworth’s theory concludes that creativity should be looked at not as a single entity, but as a broad category.