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The 7 Transdisciplinary Cognitive Skills for Creative Education

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Authors:
  1. Danah Henriksen

    1. Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA

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  • Includes an introduction to the seven transdisciplinary cognitive skills for creative education
  • Offers examples of classroom activities that can actually be implemented in the classroom
  • Serves as a principal text for those interested in creativity, technology and teacher education
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introducing a Frame for Creativity: Transdisciplinary Thinking and the Seven Skills in This Book

    • Danah Henriksen
    Pages 1-6

  3. Learning to See: Perceiving as a Transdisciplinary Habit of Mind

    • Danah Henriksen
    Pages 7-12

  4. Making Sense of What You See: Patterning as a Transdisciplinary Habit of Mind

    • Danah Henriksen
    Pages 13-20

  5. Finding the Foundational Ideas: Abstracting as a Transdisciplinary Habit of Mind

    • Danah Henriksen
    Pages 21-29

  6. Thinking with the Body: Embodied Thinking as a Transdisciplinary Habit of Mind

    • Danah Henriksen
    Pages 31-40

  7. Embodied Thinking as Empathy through Gaming: Perspective Taking in a Complex World

    • Danah Henriksen
    Pages 41-50

  8. Representations of Real-World Phenomena: Modeling as a Transdisciplinary Formative Skill and Practice

    • Danah Henriksen
    Pages 51-63

  9. Playing with Ideas for Creativity and Learning: Play as a Transdisciplinary Habit of Mind

    • Danah Henriksen
    Pages 65-74

  10. Transform and Transcend: Synthesis as a Transdisciplinary Approach to Thinking and Learning

    • Danah Henriksen
    Pages 75-83

  11. Connecting the Threads

    • Danah Henriksen
    Pages 85-89

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 91-92
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About this book

​This book focuses on rethinking creativity for 21st century education. The specific emphasis examines the way that creativity spans disciplines, through a set of common thinking skills that the most accomplished thinkers in any field use. These seven transdisciplinary thinking skills are rooted in historical exemplars of creativity across disciplines. We examine these skills in more detail, chapter by chapter, to offer examples of what each skill looks like in disciplines ranging from art to science, or music to math, and beyond. This set of thinking skills reflects the way that creativity may look different across fields, yet there are common paths of creative thinking that cut across disciplinary boundaries. Beyond this each chapter also considers applications for such skills in 21st century educational contexts, with an eye toward creative teaching and technology. In all of this, the book weaves together broad cultural examples of creativity and the seven transdisciplinary skills, alongside specific application-based examples from technology and teacher education.







Authors and Affiliations

  • Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA

    Danah Henriksen

About the author

Danah Henriksen is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University. Her current work and research highlight aspects of creativity, thinking skills, and design thinking for education. Her work has been published in both peer-reviewed educational journals such as Teachers College Record and Educational Technology, as well as practitioner venues such as Educational Leadership and Art Education Journal. She has been guest co-editor for a special issue of the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education focused on creativity, as well as a special issue co-editor of TechTrends about technology and teacher education. She is currently the Co-Chair of the Creativity SIG for the Society of Information Technology in Education. Dr. Henriksen teaches courses on varied topics in educational psychology, systems change and leadership, design thinking and creativity in educational settings. More information on her interests and accomplishments can be found at http://danah-henriksen.com.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The 7 Transdisciplinary Cognitive Skills for Creative Education

  • Authors: Danah Henriksen

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Educational Communications and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59545-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: © AECT 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59544-3Published: 28 July 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59545-0Published: 22 July 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2196-498X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-4998

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 92

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Educational Technology, Learning & Instruction

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