A Critique of Creativity and Complexity : Deconstructing Clichés / edited by Don Ambrose, Bharath Sriraman, Kathleen M. Pierce.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ambrose, Don, editor.

Sriraman, Bharath, editor.

Pierce, Kathleen M., editor.

Series:

Advances in Creativity and Giftedness ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In an increasingly complex world the natural human inclination is to oversimplify issues and problems to make them seem more comprehensible and less threatening. This tendency usually generates forms of dogmatism that diminish our ability to think creatively and to develop worthy talents. Fortunately, complexity theory is giving us ways to make sense of intricate, evolving phenomena. This book represents a broad, interdisciplinary application of complexity theory to a wide variety of phenomena in general education, STEM education, learner diversity and special education, social-emotional development, organizational leadership, urban planning, and the history of philosophy. The contributors provide nuanced analyses of the structures and dynamics of complex adaptive systems in these academic and professional fields.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Don Ambrose , Bharath Sriraman and Kathleen M. Pierce

Creative Emergence, Order, and Chaos: Grappling with the Complexity of Complexity Theory / Don Ambrose

Learning: Creation or Re-creation? From Constructivism to the Theory of Didactical Situations / Jarmila Novotna and Bernard Sarrazy

Investigating Mathematical Creativity in Elementary School Through the Lens of Complexity Theory / Esther Levenson

On the Edge of Chaos: Robots in the Classroom / Steve V. Coxon

The Ubiquity of the Chaos-Order Continuum: Insights From Diverse Academic Disciplines / Don Ambrose

Organisational Leadership for Creativity: Thriving at the Edge / Elizabeth Watson

Complex Regenerative Creativity / Marna Hauk

Pareto Optimum Efficiency Between Chaos and Order When Seeking Consensus in Urban Planning / Todd Juhasz

Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the Edge of Chaos / Peter E. Pruim

Seeking Chaotic Order: The Classroom as a Complex Adaptive System / Don Ambrose

Expansive Notions of Coherence and Complexity in Education / Bryant Griffith and Kim Skinner

Complexity, Patterns, and Creativity / Jeffrey W. Bloom

A Shakespeare Festival Midwives Complexity / Kathleen M. Pierce

The Anthropology of Twice Exceptionality: Is Today’s Disability Yesterday’s (or Tomorrow’s) Evolutionary Advantage? A Case Study with ADD/ADHD / Jack Trammell

Mentoring the Pupal: Professional Induction Along the Chaos-Order Continuum / Kathleen M. Pierce

Helping Students Respond Creatively to a Complex World / Michelle E. Jordan and Reuben R. McDaniel Jr.

Toward the Pattern Models of Creativity: Chaos, Complexity, Creativity / Krystyna C. Laycraft

Emotions, Complexity, and Intelligence / Ann Gazzard

Contributors / Don Ambrose , Bharath Sriraman and Kathleen M. Pierce

Subject Index / Don Ambrose , Bharath Sriraman and Kathleen M. Pierce.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789462097735

9462097739

OCLC:

894511838