Uncertainty: A Catalyst for Creativity, Learning and Development

ISBN-13: 9783030987282 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Beghetto, Ronald A.

Opis

This edited volume brings together a group of international researchers and theorists from various intellectual and analytic traditions to explore the role uncertainty plays in creativity, learning, and development. Contributors to this volume draw on existing programs of research as well as introduce new and even speculative directions for research, theory and practice.Learning and life are filled with uncertainty. Although the experience of uncertainty can cause emotional discomfort or cognitive rigidity, uncertainty serves as a catalyst and condition for change. In this way, uncertainty represents a core facet in the interrelationship among creativity, learning, and development. Considerations for both the benefits and potential costs of uncertainty will be addressed in this volume with an aim of understanding how uncertainty can be better understood in light of creativity, learning, and development. Taken together this volume stands to contribute to our collective understanding of the role that uncertainty plays in learning and life and highlights how conceptualizing and studying uncertainty in new ways can promote positive and lasting change.

Spis treści

Series Foreword

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Part I. Understanding Uncertainty

Chapter 1. Introduction (Ronald A. Beghetto and Garret Jaeger)

Chapter 2. Not knowing (Vlad Glăveanu)

Chapter 3. Uncertainty Makes Creativity Possible (Mark A. Runco)

Chapter 4. Play, Reflection, and the Quest for Uncertainty (Tjarde Savhannah Schulz, Marc Malmdorf Andersen, and Andreas Roepstorff)

Part II. Transforming Uncertainty into Creativity

Chapter 5. Beyond tolerating ambiguity: How emotionally intelligent people can channel uncertainty into creativity (Jessica Hoffmann)

Chapter 6. Living with Uncertainty in the Creative Process: A Self-Regulatory Perspective (Aleksandra Zielińska and Maciej Karwowski)

Chapter 7. The Uncertainty of Creativity: Opening Possibilities and Reducing Restrictions through Mindfulness (Danah Henriksen, Carmen Richardson, Natalie Gruber, and Punya Mishra)

Chapter 8. From Uncertainty to Insight: An Autocatalytic Framework (Liane Gabora and Mike Steel)

Part III. Uncertainty and Creativity in Science and Mathematics

Chapter 9. Grasping the Uncertainty of Scientific Phenomena: A Creative, Agentic, and Multimodal Model for Sensemaking (Ross C. Anderson, Shawn Irvin, Tracy Bousselot, Nate Beard, and Paul Beach)

Chapter 10. The relationship of the Five Legs of Creativity Theory and uncertainty in the generation of mathematical creativity (Scott A Chamberlin)

Chapter 11. Engineering uncertainty in the mathematics classroom: Implications for classroom tasks and learning (Bharath Sriraman)

Part IV. Uncertainty in Learning and Development

Chapter 12. Do children think Alea Iacta Est?: Developing concepts of uncertainty in causal reasoning (Deon Benton & Dave Sobel)

Chapter 13. Getting comfortable with uncertainty: The road to creativity in preschool children (Natalie Evans, Rachael Todaro, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek)

Chapter 14. Developing intellectual character: An educational perspective on how uncertainty-driven curiosity can support learning (Jamie Jirout)

Chapter 15. (Un)certain relation between social validation and creators’ self-concept (Izabela Lebuda)

Part V. Transforming Education in Response to Uncertainty

Chapter 16. Exploring uncertainty by groaning in the groan zone: A pattern for emergent conversation and learning (Anna Houmann)

Chapter 17. Creatively confronting the adjacent possible: Educational leadership and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Sean Leahy)

Chapter 18. Learning in an Uncertain World: Transforming Higher Education for the Anthropocene (Nathaniel Barr, Kylie Hartley, Joel A. Lopata, Brandon McFarlane, and Michael J. McNamara)

O autorze

Ronald A. Beghetto is an internationally recognized expert on creative thought and action in educational settings.  Dr. Beghetto holds the Pinnacle West Presidential Chair and serves as a Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Dr. Beghetto is the Editor for the Journal of Creative Behavior, Co-Editor for Review of Research in Education, Series Co-Editor for Creative Theory and Action in Education (Springer), and has served as a creativity advisor for LEGO Foundation and the Cartoon Network. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (Div. 10, APA), and the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI).  He is the 2018 recipient of the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts and 2008 recipient of Daniel E. Berlyne Award from Div. 10 of the American Psychological Association.

Garrett J. Jaeger is a Research Fellow at the LEGO Foundation in Billund, Denmark. His research focuses on mapping exploratory behaviors to better understand how play and creativity are linked. He previously studied exploratory play as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz after holding the Thomas Murphy research fellowship at the Center for Childhood Creativity at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Garrett received the E. Paul Torrance Endowed Student Scholarship while developing psychometrics for the creative process as he earned his PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Georgia.