Michael Hanchett Hanson
Developmental psychologist, Director of the Masters “Concentration in Creativity and Cognition” at Teachers College, Columbia University United States of America

Michael Hanchett Hanson is a developmental psychologist, Director of the Masters “Concentration in Creativity and Cognition” at Teachers College, Columbia University; a founding board member and Secretary of the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI); Executive Editor of the Routledge Creativity in Practice series; and President of Contexts R+D Inc. Michael is one of the leading advocates for the participatory framework of creativity, which looks at development of creativity within complex social and material systems. He has written on educational practices, the history of the construct of creativity within psychology; the ideological uses and dangers of the construct; creative practices in the construction of the self, and the pros and cons of educators’ use of the idea of creativity.