Essays on Divergent Thinking

IDEO’s Human-Centered Design & The Fun Theory

1.0 Inspiration

Bottom line: When finished with this step, your team will have identified a behavior that could be improved to make a better world and will understand the goal/wish/challenge for which it will seek a solution. Explore behaviors that you would like to improve. Due to the nature of the online environment, and to ensure everyone on the team has the best chance of fully participating, focus on behaviors of family, friends, co-workers, or other similar groups vs. working with the general public. For example: Changing the behavior of library patrons or children on a playground may not ...

Introduction

Change is inevitable within the organizations. In essence, the organizations in the contemporary competitive environment are required to undergo changes so as to remain competitive. In other words, change is imperative for the organizations because it would be possible for them to lose their competitive advantages devoid of it. Alkaya and Hepaktan (2003) describe change as a response to some considerable opportunity or threat that arise out of the organization. It is imperative to note that change takes place when the organizations make a transition from their present state to some anticipated future state. The task of managing change ...

Introduction

The process of skilled helping is a structured process in which the helper and the helping technique should interact and operate with the subjects to ensure that the resultant help is most effective in its approach. Gerard Egan offered the 3-stage model for aiding the helpers in solving problems and seeking newer opportunities in the field of skilled help or counseling services. The prime objective of the model was to enable people for living more effectively and make more efficient use of most of the available opportunity around them to get the maximum yielding results (Shorrock, 2011). The model ...

A Research Proposal First Draft

Abstract While many researchers and practitioners alike are still finding that it is possible to help children develop creative thinking skills, we are also finding that this practice isn't being incorporated for all our kindergarten and pre-school children. The purpose of this paper will therefore be to investigate the ways in which children at the preschool/kindergarten level are being supported in the development of creative thinking skills, as well as the particular role this has played in helping kindergarten students. After initiating a review of the literature to guide the study, the methodology will involve data collection—interviews with ...

Introduction

Such researchers as Torrence (1980, 1966) and Diamong and Lee (2011) inform that various tactical approaches have been used to boost the creativity of children to develop executive and diverse skill. These researchers commend the application of pedagogical model to influence children creative skills during the early education. Models to influence creativity like computer, Osborn Parnes, and general semantics among other are being applied to impact it. The struggle for practitioner to foster creative thinking in children still precedes research psychology research fields. Torrence (1972) argues that creative thinking in children is not only possible, but can also be ...

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Research Purpose/Introduction

In a paper presented at a symposium on teaching children to think creatively, child psychologist E. Paul Torrance (1972), creator of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (Torrance, 1980, 1966) says, I know that it is possible to teach children to think creatively and that it can be done in a variety of ways. I have done it. I have seen my wife do it. I have seen other excellent teachers do it. I have seen children who demonstrated a disability for thinking creatively learn to think creatively. I have seen them continuing for years thereafter to ...

1. Divergent Thinking for Convergent Futures

Future is something that no one can predict with accuracy, even remotely. Businesses have a method of developing over time and expanding as well as contracting depending on the market situation, demand and technology changes. One the ways that have a scientific basis on predicting and preparing for the future is scenario spinning – method by which different future scenarios are painted along with the probability of their occurrence and then preparing for the future!

While indulging in scenario spinning it is vital to make them as divergent as possible, and this is where the ...

- List one contribution and one criticism of cognitive theories of development. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development has been recognized for its contribution in developing scientific study in psychology. Its contribution is significant in linking cognitive changes with the aggregate neural and visceral changes in the body with the resulting emergence of the psychophysiological development approach in the study of psychology. However, the theory is also criticized owing to its lack of scientific approach to its theory development involving the issues on using small samples for its tests and the absence of using statistical figure analysis in ...

Traditional wisdom used to hold that creative thinking and innovative thinking is an inborn, innate talent; individuals are either born with the gift for creative thought or they are not. However, research is proving more and more that while some people may be born with more innate talent, there is no reason why creative thinking and problem solving cannot be taught throughout childhood and into adulthood. The world is different than it used to be; today, in the industrialized world, all the information an individual could possibly need is available at the click of a button. This so-called “Information Age” ...

This paper seeks to develop an understanding of the process of decision making from the point of view of thinking styles. It illustrates two main styles of thinking that are commonly applied by individuals while making choices and selecting options. The research concentrates mainly on convergent, divergent, and emotional thinking styles. It considers the salient features of the styles and highlights how they influence decision making. One conclusion that has been drawn from the discussion is that the thinking styles play an important role in the process of decision making since decisions are mainly considered to be a product of ...

Experts are concerned about creativity in the education curriculum especially in early education. Are the students being engaged in such a way to ensure they become creative beings? To analyse the issue, it is important to discuss the definition of creativity, its importance and the similar but different terms of teaching creatively and teaching for creativity.

Characteristics of Creativity

There are several definitions of creativity. In the older centuries, it was defined as divine inspiration however in the recent years there has been research conducted in the area that has given rise to several definitions of creativity. The creativity characteristics can be divided ...

Introduction

Language is a channel through which people communicate with each other. It is of utmost importance for a child’s development as it enables a child to gather information, process it and create conceptual images in his or her mind. Verbal communication enables a child to comprehend the world around and learn from it. Thus, language is an integral part of both, the formal and informal education systems. There is an increasing focus on enabling children to learn more than one language in the United States (King and Fogle 1). Bilingualism is the capability to communicate in two languages with almost equal proficiency. ...