Life Challenges, Diverse Identities and Creative Solutions / Rosemary Sage, Riccarda Matteuccim, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sage, Rosemary (Professor), editor.

Matteucci, Riccarda, editor.

Series:

Education in a competitive and globalizing world series.

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative thinking.

Education--Aims and objectives.

Education.

Education and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2024]

Summary:

"Today, our new robot friends have taken over our routine tasks enabling us to focus on creative solutions to life's big challenges. Along with climate change and reducing resources, large-scale people movements are reshaping traditional societies to cause instability. Creativity needs courage to toss uncertainty aside. It is small things coming together that produce results - rearranging what is collectively known in order to find out what is needed. It is "seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought", said Albert Einstein, the famous German-Swiss theoretical physicist. The book is about turning life's obstacles into opportunities and problems into possibilities. Strength lies in our diversity, with many hearts and minds pulling together to reap rewards"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Section 1: Life Challenges

Section 2: Diverse Identities

Section 3: Creative Solutions

Review

Introduction

References

Introduction to Section 1: Life Challenges

Grasping Life Challenge:

Understanding Problems Blighting Society

Abstract

Global World Challenges

Economic Inequality

Economic Changes

Identities

Technology

Damage Reduction

Conflict

Migration

Civic Disaffection

Managing Public Expectations

Vision

Coping with Challenges

Unequal Wealth

World Collaboration

Technology, Learning, Employment

Reducing Environmental Harm

Remodelling Higher Education (HE) - The University System

Need to Act

Discussion

Disclaimer

Chapter 1

Overcoming Framed Thinking: Education or Culture?

Introduction: The Background

Thinking and Culture

Story I

Story II

Results

Framed Thinking

Discussion: How to Rewire the Mind?

Chapter 2

Challenges in Communication: Gold-Silver-Bronze Teams

Introduction: What Are the Gold-Silver-Bronze Teams?

Gold (strategic)

Silver (tactical)

Bronze (operational)

GSB Plans

GSB History

Chapter 3

The Concept of Consequence: Lessons for Everyone.

A Study to Observe Thinking, Expression and Action in 6-10-Year-olds

Introduction: The Concept of Consequence

Tests of Thinking and Expression Using 2 Picture Activities and 2 Story Re-telling Tasks

Multivariate Statistics (MANOVA) of Children Age 6-10 Years across 4 Schools (2022)

4 Tests to Assess Thinking and Narrative Expression Levels

What Are the Consequences of Lowthinking and Speaking Levels?

Education Today

Distortion of Facts for Political Purposes.

Discussion

Introduction to Section 2: Diversity Issues for Inclusion

Blue, Pink or Purple? Examining Human Identities for Improving Societies

Introduction: How Do We Form Our Identity?

The Importance of Names

The Question of "Sex"

Sex Differences Observed from Behaviour

Feminist Views on Sex

Gender Wars

Chapter 4

Working Across Cultures. The DIAL Project: Dialogue, Innovation, Achievement, Learning Sharing, Developing and Spreading Good Practice (England and Japan)

Language Differences

How to Work Well Across Cultures

Communication

Prioritise Open Communication

Summarising Working Across Cultures

Chapter 5

Continual Professional Development for Diversity: Lessons from Experience

Introduction: What is Continual Professional Development (CPD)?

Professional Development Benefits

CPD Challenges

CPD Barriers

CPD Problems

Descriptor Definition

Main Messages

Chapter 6

My View of Gender and Diversity

What Are Genders?

What Is the Research?

Recognition

Introduction to Section 3: Creativity in Education

Introduction: The Creative Process

Creativity in Education

Creativity Myths

Bias Against the Right Brain

Two Ways of Knowing and Understanding

A Whole Brain is Best

Imaging for Understanding

Whole-Brain Teaching

Supporting Students Creatively

In Summary: In Order to Be Creative You Must Be

Chapter 7

Arts, Crafts and Design: Keys to Creativity

What Is Creative Thinking?.

What I Have Learnt from Teaching Art, Craft and Design

Nurturing the Whole Brain

Imagining for Understanding

Creative Myths

The Education Curriculum

Art, Craft and Design

The UK Context

Knowledge

Practical Knowledge

Theoretical Knowledge

Disciplinary Knowledge

Teaching

Assessment

Systems, Policies, Culture

Reflection and Review

Chapter 8

Creative Decisions in Sport

and Physical Exercise

Defining Sport Creativity

How to Think Creatively

Making Decisions in Sport

Working Memory in Performance

Using Previous Experience

Regulation

Coping with Pressure

Assessing Memory Abilities

Memory Training

Imagination Training for Decisions

Developing Reflection

The Contribution of Arts and Music to Mental Agility

Appendix

The Pace System for Brain Coordination

Chapter 9

A Dance Dream: Creative Movement for Anyone

Molly and Daisy Dancing!

Where Did My Lap Top Dance? At a Disc-O

How Do We Learn to Dance?

Reference

Chapter 10

Critical Thinking in Creativity

Limited Perception

Cognitive Biases

Unstructured Real-life Tasks

Developing Creative Logic

Chapter 11

Creative Thinking in the School Context

Creativity

Creative Person

Creative Product

Creative Process

Context for Creativity

Creative Thinking

Divergent Thinking and Creative Thinking: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Cognitive Symbiosis: Executive Functions and Creative Thinking

The Importance of Being a Creative Thinker in the Classroom.

What Happens with Creative Thinking and the School?

Creative Thinking in Classroom

Co-operative Learning

Project Based Learning (PBL)

Game-Based Learning (GBL)

Flipped Classroom

Chapter 12

Foreign Language Teaching/Learning as a Tool for Engineering Students' Cognitive Development and Stimulation of Creative Thinking

Method

Information Overload Problem (Redundant Information Fields of Academic Disciplines)

Passive, Pattern-Based and Stereotypical Learning Activities

Low Levels of Student Professional Communication (Written/Spoken)

Undergraduate Engineering Students' Low Emotional Intelligence and Volition

Cognition via Problematisation

Active Communication

Possible Reasoning

Switching between Academic-Professional Goals, Communicative -Content

Epilogue

Western and Non-Western Lifestyles

Threats from Within Nations

Speaking the Truth Lands People in Trouble

The Book Authors Focus on Moral Character

The Future

Authors' Biographies

Index

Blank Page.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Sage, Rosemary Life Challenges, Diverse Identities and Creative Solutions

ISBN:

9798891138964