The paper intends to introduce the research project CREAT_ED: The Historicization of the Creative Child in Education, focusing on its online archive platform. While the project is still in development, its online archive platform already allows us to problematize how a particular theoretical framework cannot be separated from the methodological and ‘practical’ problems and answers concerning the research tools we need in the project. With the CREAT_ED project, we intend to understand historically how the idea of the child as a creative subject was produced within modern western discursivities about the child and creativity. We start from a post-structuralist and decolonial theoretical frame to understand how this child was - and still is - the result of a coloniality of thought and being, of power and knowledge relations that produced violence that is still operative in the present. As an essential research tool - and not only as an output of the project - we built an online archive platform where we load different materials that produce this child. This platform intends to provide access to these historical sources, although ‘acting’ on them as the possibility of perceiving the violence and universalism they embody, trying to disrupt their effects.
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