A Critique of Creativity and Complexity: Deconstructing Cliches (Advances in Creativity and Giftedness) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9462097720 ISBN 13: 9789462097728

Publisher: Brill - Sense, 2014

Synopsis

In an increasingly complex world the natural human inclination is to oversimplify issues and problems to make them seem more comprehensible and less threatening. This tendency usually generates forms of dogmatism that diminish our ability to think creatively and to develop worthy talents. Fortunately, complexity theory is giving us ways to make sense of intricate, evolving phenomena. This book represents a broad, interdisciplinary application of complexity theory to a wide variety of phenomena in general education, STEM education, learner diversity and special education, social-emotional development, organizational leadership, urban planning, and the history of philosophy. The contributors provide nuanced analyses of the structures and dynamics of complex adaptive systems in these academic and professional fields.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill - Sense
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9462097720
• ISBN 13: 9789462097728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Ambrose Don, Sriraman Bharath, Pierce Kathleen M.