Writing on the wall: How the use of technology can open dialogical spaces in lectures
This article discusses experiences using an online collaborative whiteboard to provide dialogical spaces (Wegerif, 2013) for students to reflect on their understanding of concepts in lectures in two higher-education courses: one in psychology and the other in teacher education. When describing dialogical spaces, the following terms are crucial: opening (how the dialogical space is enabled), widening (how many different voices and perspectives it allows for) and deepening (the extent of critical reflections that it provides). The research question is: ‘What kind of affordances are there in using a collaborative whiteboard...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - April 10, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Creative Thinking features and museum interactivity: Examining the narrative and Possibility Thinking features in primary classrooms using learning resources associated with museum visits
This study had as a sample eight primary school teachers in Cyprus with their students aged 9-10 years. It employed various data collection methods including semi-structured interviews, observations, teachers’ reflections and the researcher's reflective journals. The findings were compared with the existing PT literature and offer an in-depth investigation of PT features (question posing, play, immersion, innovation, risk taking, being imaginative, self-determination and intentionality). The data revealed the important role of narrative, and the identification of all the PT features, as well as contributing to the unders...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - April 5, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Reading and writing the game: Creative and dialogic pedagogies in sports education
Publication date: Available online 30 March 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Jorge Knijnik, Ramón Spaaij, Ruth JeanesABSTRACTSports educators have long used coaching and teaching methods based on regimes of mechanical execution of movements. Without accounting for the social context in which sports education takes place, these methodologies consider exhaustive action replication the best way to master physical skills. The past decades have seen a surge in alternative pedagogies that acknowledge that sporting bodies are much more than a combination of techniques. Pedagogies such as Game Sense approach t...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - March 31, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
Improvising musicians' self-regulation and distributed creativities: A phenomenological investigation
Publication date: Available online 18 March 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Leon de BruinAbstractThis paper explores musical improvisation, examining the learning processes utilized in acquiring improvisational skill, and the development of creative processes and expression of six elite Australian improvisers. Taking a socio-constructivist approach to examining how groups and individuals engage in, sustain, support, and productively develop processes of collaborative learning, this phenomenological study investigates the temporal and sequential characteristics of SRL and SSRL regulation that can inform...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - March 19, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
The impact of spontaneous and induced mood states on problem solving and memory
Publication date: Available online 16 March 2019Source: Thinking Skills and CreativityAuthor(s): Wangbing Shen, Yuan Zhao, Bernhard Hommel, Yuan Yuan, Yu Zhang, Zongying Liu, Haixai GuAbstractAccumulating theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that task-irrelevant mood states have specific effects on insightful and analytical problem solving, but few studies have directly related those states to these two problem-solving strategies. The present research investigated the impact of pre-existing mood and experimentally induced mood states on solving problems that could be solved analytically or by insight. Results reveal...
Source: Thinking Skills and Creativity - March 18, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research
