Creativity and research – divergences and convergences

Fernando Cardoso de Sousa, PhDfernando.sousa@apgico.pt Faro, 11 July 2014

• What is the relation between creativity and research?

•What are the most important contributions of creativity for

research?

•Why doesn’t the university produces creative researchers?

WHEN WAS CREATIVITY CONSIDERED IMPORTANT TO EDUCATION AND RESEARCH?

Guilford and the Sputnik 1

WHEN DID CREATIVITY LOSE IMPORTANCE TO EDUCATION AND RESEARCH?

Final de la amenaza nuclear y inicio de la amenaza global

WHAT IS AND WHAT ISN’T CREATIVITY

PSEUDOCREATIVITYORIGINALITY

EFECTIVENESS

FIND AND REPORT

CREATIVITY AS AN ATTRIBUTION

CREATOR

JUDGES

PRODUCT

SELF

-ATTRIBUTED CREA

TIVITY

HETERO-ATTRIBUTED CREATIVITY

INNOVATION

“CREATIVITY LIES NOT IN THE CREATOR, NOR IN THE PRODUCT BUT IN THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE

CREATOR AND THE EXPERTS IN THE FIELD, WHO ACCEPT OR REJECT ORIGINAL PRODUCTS”

M. Csikszentmihalyi

WHAT IS AND WHAT ISN’T CREATIVE RESEARCH

ORIGINALCOPY-PASTE

EFFECTIVE RESEARCH

FIND AND REPORT NEW KNOWLEDGE WORTHY OF PUBLICATION

ALL BEGINS BY CHALLENGING PERCEPTION

CREATIVITY AND RESEARCH AS PROBLEM SOLVING

Innovative results=

Content +

Process+

Process skills+

Tools for divergence and

convergence

PERSONALITY:CAUSE OR CONSEQUENCE?

CREATIVE PEOPLE HAVE THE TRAITS

TRAITS DO NOT DETERMINE CREATIVITY

ARE PROFESSORS COMFORTABLE WITH AUTONOMY, RISK TAKING AND CURIOSITY

OF STUDENTS?

WHAT KIND OF MOTIVATION IS MORE FAVOURABLE TO RESEARCH?

INTRINSIC EXTRINSIC

UNIVERSITY FAVORS ONLY EXTRINSIC

WHAT MATTERS MORE FOR RESEARCH: CREATIVITY OR INTELLIGENCE?

MIXNO COGNITIVE STYLE,

NOR CREATIVE THINKING

COGNITIVE PROCESSES

WHAT AGE IS MORE FAVOURABLE?

MECHANIC YOUTHPRAGMATIC EXPERIENCE

THE UNIQUE RELATION SUPERVISOR-CANDIDATE

INSPIRATION OR TRANSPIRATION?

INTUITION INCUBATION

SEREDENDIPITY

WHAT KIND OF ENVIRONMENT FAVOURS RESEARCH?

INDIVIDUAL GROUP

MIX

CREATION IS ALWAYS COLLECTIVE, AND SO THE ISOLATED INDIVIDUAL, HOWEVER CREATIVE SHE MAY BE, WILL ALWAYS BE MORE LIMITED THAN IF SHE IS INSERTED IN A GROUP. THEREFORE, THE FOUNDATION OF ANY ORGANIZATION SHOULD RELY ON TEAMS. THE VALUE OF EACH TEAM DEPENDS TO A LARGE EXTENT ON THE QUALITY OF ITS LEADERSHIP

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

CREATIVITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

CREATIVITY ACROSS CURRICULA

CREATIVITY TRAINING

AIMING AT CREATIVE POTENTIAL

WHAT FUTURE FOR CREATIVE RESEARCH IN THE UNIVERSITY?

SOCIAL FRAGMENTATION

COLLABORATION

INTERNATIONAL TENDENCIES

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