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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"Creative thinking"”.
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Creativity: Understanding and enhancing creative thinking
Contains fulltext : 102403.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Inside/out : mirrors for reflective, creative thinking
… document I present three tools for reflective, creative thinking: Pillow-Talk, the NeverEnding Drawing Machine and Calliope. These tools make use of the "distorted mirror" metaphor for self-reflection. They are designed to debunk myths of creativity as an acquired faculty and instead promote …
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Brainstorming as a Way of Facilitating Creative Thinking
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:23:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6503170.pdf: 3710175 bytes, checksum: 79ae82e1bac682d27f279cd523b31218 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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Towards Digital Liminality : computational tools for 'beyond average' creative thinking
… to embracing the serendipity that can inspire creative breakthroughs. How can we develop digital tools to augment this liminal period of the creative process and help designers discover unexpected ideas?
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Thirteen ways of looking : a theoretical inquiry in computational creative thinking
… propose a novel computational framework to study Creative Thinking. If we are to embed machines with creative thinking abilities, then we first need to study the evanescent nature of human creative thinking. Creative thinking is neither entirely random nor strictly logical, making it difficult to …
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Creative Idea Generation: How To Incorporate Plussing Into Your Creative Thinking Sessions
The goal of this master's thesis is to evaluate Disney's "plussing" as a form of idea-generation for every type of organization and business. This method was assessed through a case study of two nonprofit organizations in Morgantown, West Virginia after developing three original plussing methods. …
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CREATIVE THINKING IN FASHION & TEXTILE DESIGN: Idea Generation, Reflected in the Visual Journal
The creative thinking that takes part in the early stages of design projects is often highly conceptual, rarely seen by others and can be difficult for designers to share. Therefore, its importance may not be well understood, leading to miscommunication and missed opportunities in the early stages …
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The effectiveness of a creativity course on developing Chinese design students' creative thinking
<p>The ability to think creatively has been recognized as a skill necessary for design students’ personal and professional development and success. Therefore, in recent years, the core educational aim of design education in China shifted emphasis from training students in skills such as drawing and …
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Theoretical Development of Creative Thinking: The Role of Integrative Thinking and Social Cognition
Creative thinking is the psychological mechanism underlying the descriptive process that produces real-life creative outcomes. However, the connection between individual creative thinking and real-life creativity remains unclear. For example, the widely employed psychometric tools for creative …
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A Study of Educational Achievement in Relation to Creative Thinking Abilities and Intellectual Ability
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:34:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6303195.pdf: 3531138 bytes, checksum: e0200a6ed3c6ee24ce058eaaaa8c4246 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Creative thinking in engineering education : lessons from students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineers have deemed creative thinking a necessary skill in their line of work, and ABET, the accreditation board for engineering schools, can evaluate a program based on how it attempts to teach it in its courses. And yet, many students and professors feel that creative thinking is a skill often …
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Creativity quotient: a statistical instrument for combining cognitive and personality components of creative thinking
Creative thinking is a multi-faceted trait. It encompasses a constellation of intellectual abilities and personality characteristics. In this study cognitive and personality components of creative thinking were included in an instrument. From the relevant literature the most important cognitive …
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The Creative Process: The Effects of Domain Specific Knowledge and Creative Thinking Techniques on Creativity
… are more important for us to understand than the creative process. The aim of this thesis is to assist in deepening that understanding. To achieve this a review of the literature is first undertaken. Combining the many different streams of research from the literature results in the development of …
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Do Undergraduate Business Schools Cultivate Creative Thinking: The Wharton Curriculum As A Case In Point
… whether undergraduate business schools cultivate creative thinking, using the Wharton undergraduate education as a case in point. To determine this, past course syllabi were analyzed for objective(s) of cultivating creative thinking. This was followed by semi-structured interviews with Wharton …
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A Study of the Creative Thinking Abilities of Teachers and the Tested Creativity of Their Pupils
The purpose of this study was to investigate the creative thinking abilities of teachers and the tested creativity of their pupils.
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The effectiveness of the creativity trigger module in achieving higher levels of creative thinking among prospective teachers
The unoptimised level of creative thinking is seen as an issue among Semester 8 prospective teachers in Malaysian Teacher-Education Institutes (IPG). This could impede their teaching of creative thinking as one of the four components of 21st century skills in schools. In relation to this, this …
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Applying Art-based Embodied Knowledge to Further Artistic Objectives with Technology and Support Creative Thinking in Computing
… intelligence (GenAI), which can produce creative works such as paintings, music, and creative writings almost instantly. However, before the introduction of GenAI, software had been used for decades across all vantages of influence to expedite human expression. Society is grappling with …
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An Investigation of Selected Factors of the Creative Thinking Ability of Music Majors in a Teacher Training Program
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T19:39:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6507156.pdf: 4759919 bytes, checksum: 450fea1c56dcb3b6a19b47a737bb9b09 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1965
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An experimental study of the effects of group counseling upon the creative thinking of selected senior high school students
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Making sense of critical and creative thinking within an early childhood studies seminar – a phenomenological contribution to intercultural pedagogy
… exploring the contextualisation of critical and creative thinking, as well as the cultural aspects of being a learner. A proposed conceptual framework for sense-making and meaning-making may be conducive to providing more holistic, culturally relevant seminar pedagogies, leading to greater …
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