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To
investigate potential means to help nurture
creative autonomous problem
solvers and to develop an 8-week scheme of
work based around PIC chip technology |
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School: Trinity School,
Berkshire |
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Fellow: Elliott Wilson |
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Email: elliottwillson@fsmail.net |
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The term creativity is used
by many people to describe different things.
Cropley (2001) suggests most individuals connect
creativity with artistic or aesthetic phenomena.
However, over the last fifty years leading
educationalists such as Roe and Guilford have
begun to explicitly express the important
link between creativity and areas such as
science and engineering. A good example of
the widening accepted definition of creativity
is the scientist, whose lucid thinking allows
him to make the link between mould growing
in a lab and the anti-biotic penicillin. Yet
with all this research, creative problem solving
is still not always finding its way into our
teaching as often as it could. |
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The evidence is that too
often our education activities are focused
on closed questions with their reliance on
linear process and logical reasoning. (DfEE
99 pg 95) |
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Industry too is beginning
to feel the pinch of past educational policies
and many technological based companies such
as Marconi, Jaguar and Dyson are all struggling
to recruit people with the required creative
thought processes to keep them at the leading
edge (Breckon 2001)With GATSBY backing I am
now researching different and exciting ways
to deliver a modern and technologically advanced
Design Technology curriculum that allows,
indeed nurtures, creative autonomous problem
solvers. |
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