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A Study on Creativity Training Method in Writing Education: conceiving and organizing through discourses of postmodernism Song, Ji-yeon In school education, there is a question how to actually teach students to exert their creativity as a factor linked to conceiving and organizing stages of writing. As a matter of fact, creativity is just one of the abstract objects of education, and there aren't yet any specific, well- planned efforts to teach creativity. Focusing on this reality, it's meant in this study to discuss this issue from a reflective perspective to find some solutions. Existing studies of creativity education have just catered to adults without providing authentic information or ideas on educational contents about writing tasks. In this study, creativity was classified into three to define its concept. One is creativity as a method of problem solving, and another is creativity as a way of self-expression. The third is creativity as a method of conceiving and organizing. And the scope of discussion was confined to creativity education as one of college general education courses of writing. The purpose of this study was, therefore, to examine how creativity should be educated at a college as a thinking process of conceiving and organizing. This study intends to assert and suggest that one is able to think in a 178․한어문교육 제26집 new and creative way through ‘becoming,’ ‘transcending’ and ‘mixing’ when he or she writes. The concept of ‘becoming’ is similar to that of Deleuze's ‘becoming’, and refers to trying to become something else or someone else. That is associated with sympathy, flow and empathy skills. Students can train themselves to speak in their own unique manner, not in a conventional or stereotyped way, by trying to ‘become’ something else or someone else. ‘Transcending’ is closely bound up with ‘meta’ thinking. And this is a matter of perspective as well, namely the way of looking at something, and something here is comprehensive of not only the theme of writing but its form and genre. Creativity of ‘transcending’ can be acquired by a thinking process that one has a doubt about existing authoritarian formula and raises a question. In this sense, this is overlapped with creativity as a way of problem solving in large part. ‘Transcending’ is to think from another perspective, and parody is a good example to practice ‘transcending’. Finally, ‘mixing’ is a solution about the structure of writing. Exerting creativity is a matter of ‘how’, not ‘what.’ It means that having a creative idea hinges not on ‘what to take something out’ but on ‘how to do it.’ The 21st century could be called the age of integration, while the 20th century could be called the age of experts. So competent people who will take the initiative in knowledge-based society should think in a creative way by crossing over different fields and integrating all the knowledge, which experts overlooked in the past. Being new and fresh is a matter of arrangement, not a matter of factors. Surf the Internet, and you can find someone else has already post on it what you want to write. You can find someone else has already post on it what you want to draw, and you can find someone else has already post a photograph that you want to take. It's meaningless to add just another piece of information in today's age inundated with information. What matters is to organize information in a new way, not to produce new 대학 글쓰기 교육에서의 창의성 훈련 試論․179 information, and one of typical ways to do that is ‘mixing’ that can be replaced with fusion, hybrid or crossover. In writing, one of good and firsthand ways of mixing is to make use of analogy and a figure of speech. So far, ‘thinking’ is just an extremely small and nominal part of the college writing curriculums, and the primary purpose of this study is accomplished by suggesting the way of educating it and actual training cases. ‘Desubjectification, Anti-authoritarian, Convergence’ were selected as the core of postmodernism discourses in this study, and then were selected as the key words of an approach toward creativity education in order to show the possible sociocultural significance of these creativity training tools. The proposal and attempt of this study are expected to make a contribution to college general education by assisting students to write in a new, significant way.