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March 29, 2017
Teaching Applied Creative Thinking: A New Pedagogy for the 21st Century (ACT Creativity Series) (Volume 2)
- Author
- Sweet, Charlie; Carpenter, Rusty; Blythe, Hal; and Apostel, Shawn
- Publisher
- New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK
- ISBN
- 9781581072396
- Table of Contents
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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Optimizing Student Learning
ch. 1 Why a Pedagogy of Creativity Studies, Why Now?
ch. 2 The Role of Authority in Teaching-Learning Paradigms
ch. 3 The Meddler-in-the-Middle Pedagogy
ch. 4 The Role of Authority in the Meddler-in-the-Middle Theory
ch. 5 The Learning Environment for Optimal Creative Thinking
ch. 7 Blinded by Science . . . Not
ch. 8 Starting to Build a New Pedagogy
ch. 9 Moving from Meddling to Mentoring-from-the-Middle: A New Paradigm
ch. 10 What the Mentor Teaches
ch. 11 Where the Mentor Teaches
ch. 12 Teaching Perception Shift
ch. 13 Teaching Piggybacking
ch. 14 Teaching Brainstorming
ch. 15 Teaching Glimmer-Catching
ch. 16 Teaching Collaborating
ch. 17 Teaching Going with the Flow
ch. 18 Teaching Playing
ch. 19 Teaching Pattern Recognition
ch. 20 Teaching Metaphor Usage
ch. 21 A Typical Opening Day Using the New Pedagogy
ch. 22 Crossword Puzzles: A Universal Tool for Teaching Creative Thinking
ch. 23 How Video Games Can Inform Teaching
ch. 24 The Creative Campus
ch. 25 A Proposal for Professional Development
Afterword
Appendix I
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Abstract: The authors of Teaching Applied Creative Thinking: A New Pedagogy for the 21st Century believe this book to be the first in the field about teaching creative thinking in the new millennium. While many books talk about creativity and provide the justification for adding creative thinking as a student learning outcome, this book focuses on applying creativity to the teaching and learning process. The authors ask, “does anyone truly believe the world’s problems are going to be solved by students with only a high proficiency in common core competencies?”
With student learning outcomes as a goal, we must rethink teaching and learning to include creativity. Posed for the 21st-Century learner, their new paradigm, Mentor-from-the-Middle, replicates scholarly inquiry by developing a scholarly frame of mind. The teacher assumes new roles in this paradigm of scholar, mentor, facilitator, coach, model, and critical reflector. These roles in turn combine to help transform the learner into an active creative thinker.
"The authors’ goals in writing this book are to fill a void, to transform teaching, to create a new model, and to develop a new approach to teaching and learning. In the old world, before the coming of Google, the transfer of knowledge was the work of the teacher; now knowledge is available at the tip of our fingers. But the Google cannot solve the world’s problems. We will always need great teachers to transform and synthesize knowledge into skills, to teach creative thinking, to apply learning, and to create a love for learning that lasts a lifetime. The authors discuss new brain research, advanced technologies, the teaching environment, and pedagogy. They synthesize this knowledge in a wonderful way to encourage the reader to think deeply about how this research might affect the teacher and the learner. (From the Publisher)
Abstract: The authors of Teaching Applied Creative Thinking: A New Pedagogy for the 21st Century believe this book to be the first in the field about teaching creative thinking in the new millennium. While many books talk about creativity and provide the justification for adding creative thinking as a student learning outcome, this book focuses on applying creativity to the teaching and learning process. The authors ask, “does anyone truly believe the world’s problems are going to be solved by students with only a high proficiency in common core competencies?”
With student learning outcomes as a goal, we must rethink teaching and learning to include creativity. Posed for the 21st-Century learner, their new paradigm, Mentor-from-the-Middle, replicates scholarly inquiry by developing a scholarly frame of mind. The teacher assumes new roles in this paradigm of scholar, mentor, facilitator, coach, model, and critical reflector. These roles in turn combine to help transform the learner into an active creative thinker.
"The authors’ goals in writing this book are to fill a void, to transform teaching, to create a new model, and to develop a new approach to teaching and learning. In the old world, before the coming of Google, the transfer of knowledge was the work of the teacher; now knowledge is available at the tip of our fingers. But the Google cannot solve the world’s problems. We will always need great teachers to transform and synthesize knowledge into skills, to teach creative thinking, to apply learning, and to create a love for learning that lasts a lifetime. The authors discuss new brain research, advanced technologies, the teaching environment, and pedagogy. They synthesize this knowledge in a wonderful way to encourage the reader to think deeply about how this research might affect the teacher and the learner. (From the Publisher)