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Creativity and research – divergences and convergencesTRANSCRIPT
Creativity and research – divergences and convergences
Fernando Cardoso de Sousa, [email protected] Faro, 11 July 2014
• What is the relation between creativity and research?
•What are the most important contributions of creativity for
research?
•Why doesn’t the university produces creative researchers?
WHEN WAS CREATIVITY CONSIDERED IMPORTANT TO EDUCATION AND RESEARCH?
Guilford and the Sputnik 1
WHEN DID CREATIVITY LOSE IMPORTANCE TO EDUCATION AND RESEARCH?
Final de la amenaza nuclear y inicio de la amenaza global
WHAT IS AND WHAT ISN’T CREATIVITY
PSEUDOCREATIVITYORIGINALITY
EFECTIVENESS
FIND AND REPORT
CREATIVITY AS AN ATTRIBUTION
CREATOR
JUDGES
PRODUCT
SELF
-ATTRIBUTED CREA
TIVITY
HETERO-ATTRIBUTED CREATIVITY
INNOVATION
“CREATIVITY LIES NOT IN THE CREATOR, NOR IN THE PRODUCT BUT IN THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE
CREATOR AND THE EXPERTS IN THE FIELD, WHO ACCEPT OR REJECT ORIGINAL PRODUCTS”
M. Csikszentmihalyi
WHAT IS AND WHAT ISN’T CREATIVE RESEARCH
ORIGINALCOPY-PASTE
EFFECTIVE RESEARCH
FIND AND REPORT NEW KNOWLEDGE WORTHY OF PUBLICATION
ALL BEGINS BY CHALLENGING PERCEPTION
CREATIVITY AND RESEARCH AS PROBLEM SOLVING
Innovative results=
Content +
Process+
Process skills+
Tools for divergence and
convergence
PERSONALITY:CAUSE OR CONSEQUENCE?
CREATIVE PEOPLE HAVE THE TRAITS
TRAITS DO NOT DETERMINE CREATIVITY
ARE PROFESSORS COMFORTABLE WITH AUTONOMY, RISK TAKING AND CURIOSITY
OF STUDENTS?
WHAT KIND OF MOTIVATION IS MORE FAVOURABLE TO RESEARCH?
INTRINSIC EXTRINSIC
UNIVERSITY FAVORS ONLY EXTRINSIC
WHAT MATTERS MORE FOR RESEARCH: CREATIVITY OR INTELLIGENCE?
MIXNO COGNITIVE STYLE,
NOR CREATIVE THINKING
COGNITIVE PROCESSES
WHAT AGE IS MORE FAVOURABLE?
MECHANIC YOUTHPRAGMATIC EXPERIENCE
THE UNIQUE RELATION SUPERVISOR-CANDIDATE
INSPIRATION OR TRANSPIRATION?
INTUITION INCUBATION
SEREDENDIPITY
WHAT KIND OF ENVIRONMENT FAVOURS RESEARCH?
INDIVIDUAL GROUP
MIX
CREATION IS ALWAYS COLLECTIVE, AND SO THE ISOLATED INDIVIDUAL, HOWEVER CREATIVE SHE MAY BE, WILL ALWAYS BE MORE LIMITED THAN IF SHE IS INSERTED IN A GROUP. THEREFORE, THE FOUNDATION OF ANY ORGANIZATION SHOULD RELY ON TEAMS. THE VALUE OF EACH TEAM DEPENDS TO A LARGE EXTENT ON THE QUALITY OF ITS LEADERSHIP
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
CREATIVITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
CREATIVITY ACROSS CURRICULA
CREATIVITY TRAINING
AIMING AT CREATIVE POTENTIAL
WHAT FUTURE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH IN THE UNIVERSITY?
SOCIAL FRAGMENTATION
COLLABORATION
INTERNATIONAL TENDENCIES
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