Teaching Creativity in High School: From an integrative perspective

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Teaching Creativity in High School From an
integrative perspective
International Conference on Creativity and
Education

• Jiannong Shi, Xiaojun Qu
• Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of
  Science
• shijn_at_psych.ac.cn
• http//cngifted.psych.ac.cn

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Issues about creativity

• Knowledge or experience and creativity
• Intelligence and creativity
• Motivation (intrinsic vs extrinsic) and
  creativity
• Family background and creativity
• Schooling and creativity
• Culture and creativity
• Natured or nurtured

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• What is creativity?
• Creativity is the generation of ideas that are
  both novel and valuable. (Boden)
• A creative idea is one that is both original and
  appropriate for the situation in which it
  occurs.(Martindale)
• Creativity from a Western perspective can be
  defined as the ability to produce work that is
  novel and appropriate. (Lubart)

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Two Defining Features of Creativity
(Mayer, 1999)
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Creativity is not the sole feature of a product

• Person who create the product
• Procedure during which the product is created
• Environment which press the pressure on the
  person and has feedback on the product
• and the product itself

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Conception of creativity
Creativity is a manifestation of one's
intellectual activity. It is the ability of an
individual to re-construct and combine the
components of existing knowledge and experience
in a special way to develop a new
production. Creativity is combined with creative
attitude, creative behavior, and creative
production. The core is creative behavior which
includes creative thinking, creative habits, and
creative activities. Creativity can be influenced
by the environment in which one lives. The degree
of the influence mainly depends on ones
personality.
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Intellectual potential
Heredity
Non-intelligence personalities
Knowledge experiences
Attitudes or trends

Creative thinking
Creative habits
Creative actions
The System of Creativity
Creative behavior
Creative products
Family economic conditions
Educational level
Social environment
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Creativity and intelligence current
Factors may make effects intrinsic or extrinsic
Intellectual potential
Control switch
Attitude about task
Target task Activities evaluated
Non-target task Activities not evaluated
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Creativity in an integrative system
Power system Curiosity, Interest, Motivation,
Creative attitudes, etc.
Support system Notion form of
education, Pattern of management, Encouraging
system, and opportunities, etc.
Creativity development
Resource system Domain knowledge, skills,
Methods, Tools or equipment, etc.
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Design of creativity education in schools
(Shi, 2000)
Creativity
Function of product
Originality
Value
Evaluated by society
Different from others
Know the old
Communicate with others
Try new things
Express oneself
Comparing finding problems
Cognitive aspects
Socialization Communication collaboration
Non-cognitive aspects
Looking for challenge
Risk taking
Seeking information
Seeking helps
Do what others not dare to do
Collaboration
Enough physical energy
Psychological mode
Value of world, of life, of oneself
Having experience in society, in nature
Medical care nutrition
Physical exercise
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Cognitive Aspects

• Breaking the set of thinking styles
• Critical thinking training
• Divergent thinking training
• flexibility, originality, fluency etc.
• example

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Non-cognitive Aspects

• Challenge oneself
• task commitment, passion
• motivation motives
• curiosity, drive for exploration knowledge
  etc.
• openness for experiences, open learning
• Input Output the information with different
  sense modality
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Communication and collaboration skills

• Expressing oneself
• Making speech
• Debating
• Acting
• Team-building
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