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Does Self-efficacy Matter? On the Correlation of Self-efficacy and Creativity in IT Education
2019
Self-efficacy belief affects humans in life, action and work. Higher self-efficacy enables stronger contribution in fulfilling tasks, helping others in a team, and survive when facing obstacles and failures. Also creativity correlates to higher self-efficacy. At the same time, design is a powerful skill in note-making, improving the student’s understanding of the undergoing topic in a class. Note-making, when consisting of recorded writings, self-drawn images and other supportive subjects like structural analyses, charts, ad-hoc notes, detailed features and verbal links to related themes, forms a fundamental skill and ability in learning and applying new motifs and patterns. We executed dur…
In-service and prospective teachers’ conceptions of creativity
2009
Abstract Teachers play a crucial role in the development of primary school students’ creative potential in either a positive or a negative way. This paper aims to draw attention to in-service and prospective teachers’ conceptions of creativity and answer three main research questions: “What are the teachers’ conceptions and implicit theories of creativity in general?”, “What are the teachers’ conceptions and implicit theories of creativity in the context of primary education?”, and “How well-trained and equipped do teachers feel to play their key role in the development of students’ creative potential?” A self-report questionnaire was used as an instrument to gather qualitative and quantita…
Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space–time
2010
Concepts of space and time are widely developed in physics. However, there is a considerable lack of biologically plausible theoretical frameworks that can demonstrate how space and time dimensions are implemented in the activity of the most complex life-system - the brain with a mind. Brain activity is organized both temporally and spatially, thus representing space-time in the brain. Critical analysis of recent research on the space-time organization of the brain's activity pointed to the existence of so-called operational space-time in the brain. This space-time is limited to the execution of brain operations of differing complexity. During each such brain operation a particular short-te…
Three Liberal Conceptions of Self-Realization: Creativity, Authenticity and Flourishing
2018
The concept of self-realization, in its most contemporary sense, owes much to an idea, which arose with the Enlightenment, as the culmination of the process of the rebirth of the subject in the fifteenth century. However, the notion of self-realization is complex because it entails a combination of two apparently antagonistic elements: freedom and normativity. In this chapter, I intend to clarify this concept by examining the theses of three authors—J. S. Mill, Taylor and Nussbaum—in whose work the idea of self-realization appears in a significant way. The three philosophers underline some common elements that together with the concepts of project and imagination held by Ortega shed light o…
Improving problem solving and creativity through use of complex-dynamic simulations
2002
This article presents an instructional method to improve problem solving and creativity by employing computer-based simulations. The instructional method described is based upon empirical research conducted by the authors. The simulation presents contextually meaningful problem situations that require learners to analyze and prepare solution proposal(s). Following the learner input, the simulation assesses the proposal and offers back to the learners the consequences of their decisions while also iteratively updating the situational conditions. This type of simulation, unlike conventional simulations that are used for acquisition of knowledge, is complex-dynamic, requiring the learner to fu…
Presentazione
2013
Il testo propone un articolato commento alle posizioni teoriche e alle linee di ricerca progettuale espresse da Michele Argentino, professore ordinario di Design a Palermo circa la necessità di riconquistare il ruolo sociale alla creatività individuale, riprendendosi il desiderio di diventare nuovamente "Homo Faber". Il testo inoltre presenta gli obiettivi della nuova collana scientifica - diretta dall'autrice - dal Titolo " Design e Contesti": intercettare ambiti di ricerca trasversali alle discipline del progetto, favorire gli intrecci tra idee progettuali e percorsi di innovazione socio-culturale, sviluppare nuove strategie produttive compatibili con i diversi aspetti della sostenibilità.
The energy crisis of the contemporary city: intelligence, creativity and resilience.
2012
Per affrontare la crisi energetica che affligge le città contemporanee, i piani di recupero e di riqualificazione devono necessariamente mobilitare nuove forme d’intelligenza e creatività che possono essere considerati singolari “fonti di energia rinnovabile” così come le capacità resilienti degli insediamenti. L’articolo tratteggia questi basilari concetti che, nell’ambito del dottorato di ricerca in Recupero Edilizio e Ambientale, possono contribuire a sviluppare ricerche inter-disciplinari coinvolgendo la pianificazione urbanistica e la tecnologia dell’architettura To address the energy crisis afflicting the contemporary city, recovery plans and retraining must mobilize new forms of inte…
The Creativity of Cultural Heritages and Landscapes. Redevelopment Experiences Compared
2019
Italian cultural heritage – both material and immaterial - represents an extraordinary resource of economic growth, production, cohesion and social inclusion for the country. This priceless heritage, recognized around the world, is not adequately valued, understood or shared. It is often unutilized and left in a state of total abandonment and degradation. Enhancement and protection of the cultural heritage and landscape could instead feed the development potential of the territories, activate a sustainable economy, improve the quality of life of communities, create wealth that is not only economic but also beautiful; the same beauty that makes the country among the most loved and visited in…
Vivere la città in evoluzione: il ruolo dei paesaggi urbani storici
2021
Cultural and social aspects in post pandemic age are mainly connected with land use, mainly in high-density urban contexts. It is relevantly in historical centres where urban communities ask for spaces for cultural activities, creativity, aimed at social cohesion. The paper describes this condition in UNESCO Historical Urban Landscape Policy and demonstrates in what way it can be applied at Palermo Historical Centre.
Foucault naturalizzato: soggetto, assoggettamento, libertà
2019
In questo articolo ricostruisco l’evoluzione della concezione del soggetto e dell’assoggettamento di Michel Foucault nel suo aspetto più problematico, e cioè nel suo rapporto con la possibilità, e il valore, della libertà. A metà degli anni settanta, cavalcando l'idea che il soggetto (l’individuo cosciente e razionale) sia il risultato di processi di etero-determinazione sociale – un potere impersonale – Foucault sembrava inclinare verso negazione della possibilità di qualsiasi spazio di libertà del soggetto. Negli anni ottanta, invece, pur tenendo ferma l’idea della etero-determinazione sociale del soggetto, egli insisterà ripetutamente sulla sua compatibilità con una peculiare forma di li…