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Exploring Ideation Strategies as an Opportunity to Support and Evaluate Making
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Worsley, Marcelo – Information and Learning Sciences, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to compare two types of prompts, encouraging participants to think about real-world examples or engineering principles to show how these two approaches can result in vastly different design practices. Design/methodology/approach: Two studies (N = 20, N = 40) examine the impact of two different prompts. Non-expert students,…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creativity, Evaluation Methods, Comparative Analysis
The Challenges and Possibilities of a Narrative Learning Approach in the Finnish Early Childhood Education System
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Hakkarainen, Pentti – International Journal of Educational Research, 2008
Finnish curriculum guidelines for early education emphasise play and creative activities as significant factors in healthy child development. Constructivist theory loosely frames the guidelines, but the recommended approach lacks precise developmental goals. Since 1996, we have carried out a narrative learning project with vertically integrated…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Play, Early Childhood Education, Creative Activities
Problem Posing--Adding a Creative Increment to Technological Problem Solving.
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Lewis, Theodore; Petrina, Stephen; Hill, Anne Marie – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1998
Meta-synthesis of problem posing and creativity in technology education addresses the following: (1) constructivist and sociocultural frameworks; (2) the concept of problem posing; (3) problem posing in mathematics learning; (4) problem solving in technology education; and (5) implications for technology education. Contains 87 references. (SK)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Creative Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving
Description of an Expert Teacher's Constructivist-Oriented Teaching: Engaging Students' Critical Thinking in Learning Creative Dance.
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Chen, Weiyun – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2001
Investigated how an expert elementary teacher implemented constructivist-oriented teaching strategies to engage students' critical thinking skills when learning creative dance. Data from teacher and student interviews and videotapes of creative dance lessons provided contextual information about using appropriate constructivist-oriented teaching…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Creative Activities, Critical Thinking, Dance Education