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A Critique of Creativity and Complexity : Deconstructing Clichés.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Advances in Creativity and Giftedness SeriesPublisher: Rotterdam : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789462097735
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Critique of Creativity and ComplexityDDC classification:
  • 302.35
LOC classification:
  • L1-991
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- A Critique of Creativity and Complexity: Deconstructing Clichés -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Section 1: Introduction -- Creative Emergence, Order, and Chaos: Grappling with the Complexity of Complexity Theory -- Section 2: Complexity in STEM Processes and Structures -- Learning: Creation or Re-creation? From Constructivism to the Theory of Didactical Situations -- Investigating Mathematical Creativity in Elementary School Through the Lens of Complexity Theory -- On the Edge of Chaos: Robots in the Classroom -- Section 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Creative Complexity -- The Ubiquity of the Chaos-Order Continuum: Insights From Diverse Academic Disciplines -- Organisational Leadership for Creativity: Thriving at the Edge -- Complex Regenerative Creativity -- Pareto Optimum Efficiency Between Chaos and Order When Seeking Consensus in Urban Planning -- Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the Edge of Chaos -- Section 4: Creative Educational Frameworks and Initiatives -- Seeking Chaotic Order: The Classroom as a Complex Adaptive System -- Expansive Notions of Coherence and Complexity in Education -- Complexity, Patterns, and Creativity -- A Shakespeare Festival Midwives Complexity -- The Anthropology of Twice Exceptionality: Is Today's Disability Yesterday's (or Tomorrow's) Evolutionary Advantage? A Case Study with ADD/ADHD -- Mentoring the Pupal: Professional Induction Along the Chaos-Order Continuum -- Section 5: Social-Emotional Dynamics as Complex and Potentially Creative -- Helping Students Respond Creatively to a Complex World -- Toward the Pattern Models of Creativity: Chaos, Complexity, Creativity -- Emotions, Complexity, and Intelligence -- Contributors -- Subject Index.
Summary: In an increasingly complex world, the natural human inclination is to oversimplify issues and problems to make them seem more comprehensible and less threatening. This tendency usually generates forms of dogmatism that diminish our ability to think creatively and to develop worthy talents.
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Intro -- A Critique of Creativity and Complexity: Deconstructing Clichés -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Section 1: Introduction -- Creative Emergence, Order, and Chaos: Grappling with the Complexity of Complexity Theory -- Section 2: Complexity in STEM Processes and Structures -- Learning: Creation or Re-creation? From Constructivism to the Theory of Didactical Situations -- Investigating Mathematical Creativity in Elementary School Through the Lens of Complexity Theory -- On the Edge of Chaos: Robots in the Classroom -- Section 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Creative Complexity -- The Ubiquity of the Chaos-Order Continuum: Insights From Diverse Academic Disciplines -- Organisational Leadership for Creativity: Thriving at the Edge -- Complex Regenerative Creativity -- Pareto Optimum Efficiency Between Chaos and Order When Seeking Consensus in Urban Planning -- Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the Edge of Chaos -- Section 4: Creative Educational Frameworks and Initiatives -- Seeking Chaotic Order: The Classroom as a Complex Adaptive System -- Expansive Notions of Coherence and Complexity in Education -- Complexity, Patterns, and Creativity -- A Shakespeare Festival Midwives Complexity -- The Anthropology of Twice Exceptionality: Is Today's Disability Yesterday's (or Tomorrow's) Evolutionary Advantage? A Case Study with ADD/ADHD -- Mentoring the Pupal: Professional Induction Along the Chaos-Order Continuum -- Section 5: Social-Emotional Dynamics as Complex and Potentially Creative -- Helping Students Respond Creatively to a Complex World -- Toward the Pattern Models of Creativity: Chaos, Complexity, Creativity -- Emotions, Complexity, and Intelligence -- Contributors -- Subject Index.

In an increasingly complex world, the natural human inclination is to oversimplify issues and problems to make them seem more comprehensible and less threatening. This tendency usually generates forms of dogmatism that diminish our ability to think creatively and to develop worthy talents.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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