Entrepreneurship as Creative Advocacy

Abstract

View related articles View Crossmark data Citing articles: 1 View citing articles Conventional approaches to advocacy involve persuading others to act in the interest of a worthy cause. According to art educator and researcher Rita Irwin (1993), "anyone who pleads for the cause of art in education and its unique position within our cultural fabric" (p. 71) is engaged in advocacy. Creative advocacy goes a step further to seek and inspire change (e.g., Brown, 1979). Whereas conventional advocacy can be directed toward maintaining rather than changing current priorities, practices, and policies, creative advocacy is entrepreneurial in its aim to disrupt the status quo with outof-the-box thinking and transform the existing state of aff airs using new and alternative methods, tools, and tactics.