Search results for "Creativity"

Mining Creativity Research to Inform Design Rationale in Open Source Communities

2011

Design rationale can act as a creativity support tool. Recent findings from the field of creativity research present new opportunities that can guide the implementation and evaluation of design rationale’s ability to foster creative processes and outcomes. By encouraging the exploration of failure through use of analogy, design rationale can foster creative transfer and enable progress in new directions. Open source communities offer an opportunity to observe a form of intrinsically motivated ad hoc design rationale, exhibiting formal and informal information transfer links within forums and allowing access to common tools, expertise, and mentorship. A discussion of a spectrum of implementa…

Individual Creativity and Career Choices of Pre-teens in the Context of a Math-Art Learning Event

2021

A sample of 392 students (aged 12-13 years, M± SD: 12. 52% girls) completed a learning module integrating informal hands-on mathematics and arts activity (extending STEM to STEAM). Within a 140 minute workshop period participants worked with commercially available ‘4Dframe’ Math and STEAM learning toolkits to design and create original, personal and individual geometrical structures. Two science pedagogues acted as tutors supervising the process and intervened only when needed. A pre-/post-test design monitored individual creativity, relative autonomy, and career choice preference. Path analysis elaborated the role of creativity (measured with two subscales: act and flow), and it showed tha…

Searching for Global Employability : Can Students Capitalize on Enabling Learning Environments?

2019

Literature on global employability signifies “enabling” learning environments where students encounter ill-formed and open-ended problems and are required to adapt and be creative. Varying forms of “projects,” co-located and distributed, have populated computing curricula for decades and are generally deemed an answer to this call. We performed a qualitative study to describe how project course students are able to capitalize on the promise of enabling learning environments. This critical perspective was motivated by the circumstance of the present-day education systems being heavily regulated for the precipitated production of human capital. The students involved in our study described edu…

Developing a Method for Measuring Science and Technology Oriented Creativity (STOC)

2021

Abstract The article contains the results of a research within the STIMEY (Science, Technology, Innovation, Mathematics, Engineering for the Young) project funded by the European Union’s Horizon-2020 research and innovation program (2016-2021). In the project, a hybrid learning environment (LE) was developed for both on-site and online learning suitable for the learning conditions in the COVID-19 era and beyond. The purpose of the research segment presented in this paper was to develop an instrument for assessment of the learner’s progress in creativity as one of the key targets of STIMEY. COVID-19 has shown that creativity is also needed to allow education systems the flexibility for unexp…

The effect of transformational leadership on organizational evolutionary state and its relation with organizational creativity

2014

A conceptual analysis of the oceanic feeling : with a special note on painterly aesthetics

2015

The inspiration in improvisation : identifying and classifying the approaches to emotion-based musical improvisation

2016

The purpose of this study was to identify the naturally occurring approaches that musicians use to improvise and to analyse the relationships between the approach used, the improviser’s musical experience, and the quality of the resulting improvisation. 16 participants took part in three group improvisation and discussion sessions, and the improvisations of the final session (80 in total) were recorded and rated by experts on emotions- and quality-related aspects. The approaches mentioned by participants in the final session were organised into five distinct categories: technical, musical inspiration, nuanced emotion, visualized scene, and personal experience. Significant negative correlati…

Psihoterapeitu kreativitātes un personības iezīmju saistība ar psihoterapeitu klientu simptomu izmaiņām

2014

Psihoterapeitu kreativitātes un personības iezīmju saistība ar psihoterapeitu klientu simptomu izmaiņām Šī pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot vai psihoterapeitu kreativitāte un personības iezīmju izteiktība ir saistīta ar klientu problēmas simptomu izmaiņām, un kādi simptomi visvairāk samazinās. Pētījumā piedalījās 109 psihoterapeiti vecumā no 28-59 gadiem,118 citu profesiju pārstāvji vecumā no 30-57 gadiem, 45 psihoterapeitu klienti, vecumā no 18-58 gadiem. Pētījumā tika izmantoti šādi instrumenti: “Tests radošai domāšanai-attēlu veidošana” (Test of Creative Thinking – Drawing Production; TCT-DP; Urban & Jellen, 1995), Lielā Piecinieka aptauja (The Big Five Inventory; John, Donahue & Kentle, 19…

Ruch w twórczości rysunkowej dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym i wczesnoszkolnym

2020

W artykule podjęto rozważania teoretyczne, ale także analizy empiryczne – na podstawie badań przeprowadzonych wśród dzieci 5–6-letnich i uczniów edukacji wczesno-szkolnej – nad zagadnieniem trudnej sztuki obrazowania ruchu w rysunku. Analiza 1471 dziecięcych rysunków dowiodła, że badane dzieci na ogół tworzą rysunki, które charakteryzuje brak dynamiki (51,3%), czasem jednak podejmują próby zobrazowania ruchu – mniej lub bardziej udane. Najczęściej dzieci czynią to poprzez zgięcie kończyny, inne ułożenie ciała, czasem stosują zróżnicowanie wielkości sylwetek i sugerują ruch za pomocą strzałek, kresek lub smug podkreślających dynamizm sytuacji, rzadziej zaznaczają ujęcie profilowe i zgięcie k…

Book Review: Psicología de la Creatividad. Perspectivas Contemporáneas

2021

This work is the reissue, two decades later, of a book that became a reference for the study of creativity in the Spanish language. The current, renewed, completed and updated editionmaintains the rigor of the previous edition and its direct, personal, and lucid expressive style. The book 'Psicología de la Creatividad. Perspectivas contemporáneas' has an informative character and a scientific basis and offers an analytical approach to the study of creativity from the perspective of psychology, emphasizing the cognitive and motivational dimensions. This is a welcome reissue. It reviews the research literature over the past 12 years and offer an updated version of the state of the art in the …