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The Creative Process
I’ve written generally about creativity, the individual dispositional traits and attitudes conducive to creativity, and how the environment and culture a person finds themselves in can help or hinder creativity. Today I’m writing a little bit about the creative process itself based on interviews with individuals who have been recognized for creating…
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Critical Thinking, Critical Analysis, and Critique – Same or Different?
Unfortunately, for many naïve teachers and students, these three things are thought of as the same thing. They are not. They are two different things (two of these things are closely related – one of these things just doesn’t belong). I can’t tell you how many scholarship applications that I have read…
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Cognitive Enablers, Both Concrete and Abstract
Cognitive enablers are tools that we acquire through formal education – at least they should be. They are generic in nature and are not really linked to any particular job or occupation, but which lie at the heart (or should) of what we do as teachers. There are concrete cognitive enablers and…
