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This article makes a qualitative analysis of what constitutes the academic work in its overlapping elements and processes. There is a joint analysis of theory and facts based on discourse analysis theory to observe intrinsic aspects that put creativity as an essential product of academic work, and extrinsic aspects necessary to establish trust and dignity as necessary assumptions to achieve its goal. We hope this approach become an available tool to protect creativity against abuses of power and to show how one builds a balanced academic work within an ethical dimension, preventing the construction of a fallacious product.

The research objective was to investigate the meanings that 5th grade students from a public school in Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo, give to the textual production that enables polysemy, creativity and authorship. Conversation circles were held with the students to know their relationships with written textual production and with the school. Pêcheux's Discourse Analysis guided the data analysis through concepts such as subjectivity, discourse, ideology, discursive memory and authorship. The results point out that the discourses produced by the students about writing often rely on dominant social discourses; when they rely on their own subjectivities, they become closer to polysemy and creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses creativity in teaching. It is intended to contribute with reflections that support innovating practices at school. The study is anchored in historical-cultural psychology which understands human being as skilled to re-signify senses. Addressing the constitution of human beings as a creative and creator being brings options in a time in which the teacher reproduces alienation processes. The context and the experienced relations are essential for the triggering of the creative process. Both interpersonal relations and work are marked by competitiveness, individualism flexibility and quickness. Such circumstance hinders the creative potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]