What is creative thinking?

03/04/2011

Ok, here is my first brainstorm on what creative thinking is about:
What is the purpose of creative thinking?
• To entertain through surprise
• To find solutions (where others have failed?)
• To be able to approach a problem in which you have no background, and propose ways to solve it.
• To access ideas that you have not experienced.
• To apply an idea in a way in which you have not experienced it being applied.
• Breaking down imagined barriers and recognizing when conventions are able to be broken.
• Understanding that there are many perspectives from which to approach an idea or problem, and having the tools with which to access those perspectives (even if they are unfamiliar to you),
• and the ability to judge which of those perspectives will be most effective in producing the desired outcome.
That's all I have for now, although I'll try to revisit this soon and see if any of these ideas are useful in the classroom. I'll also try to find some scholarly thoughts about it.
Ciao!