Overview
- Provides a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective on the role of uncertainty in creativity, learning, and development
- Offers new insights for both research and practice
- Highlights new directions for theory, methodology, and application
Part of the book series: Creativity Theory and Action in Education (CTAE, volume 6)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding Uncertainty
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Transforming Uncertainty into Creativity
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Uncertainty and Creativity in Science and Mathematics
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Uncertainty in Learning and Development
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About this book
Learning and life are filled with uncertainty. Although the experience of uncertainty can cause emotional discomfort or cognitive rigidity, uncertainty serves as a catalyst and condition for change. In this way, uncertainty represents a core facet in the interrelationship among creativity, learning, and development. Considerations for both the benefits and potential costs of uncertainty will be addressed in this volume with an aim of understanding how uncertainty can be better understood in light of creativity, learning, and development. Taken together this volume stands to contribute to our collective understandingof the role that uncertainty plays in learning and life and highlights how conceptualizing and studying uncertainty in new ways can promote positive and lasting change.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ronald A. Beghetto is an internationally recognized expert on creative thought and action in educational settings. Dr. Beghetto holds the Pinnacle West Presidential Chair and serves as a Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Dr. Beghetto is the Editor for the Journal of Creative Behavior, Co-Editor for Review of Research in Education, Series Co-Editor for Creative Theory and Action in Education (Springer), and has served as a creativity advisor for LEGO Foundation and the Cartoon Network. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (Div. 10, APA), and the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI). He is the 2018 recipient of the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts and 2008 recipient of Daniel E. Berlyne Award from Div. 10 ofthe American Psychological Association.
Garrett J. Jaeger is a Research Fellow at the LEGO Foundation in Billund, Denmark. His research focuses on mapping exploratory behaviors to better understand how play and creativity are linked. He previously studied exploratory play as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz after holding the Thomas Murphy research fellowship at the Center for Childhood Creativity at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Garrett received the E. Paul Torrance Endowed Student Scholarship while developing psychometrics for the creative process as he earned his PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Georgia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Uncertainty: A Catalyst for Creativity, Learning and Development
Editors: Ronald A. Beghetto, Garrett J. Jaeger
Series Title: Creativity Theory and Action in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98729-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98728-2Published: 19 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98731-2Published: 20 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98729-9Published: 18 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2509-5781
Series E-ISSN: 2509-579X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 357
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Educational Psychology, Personal Development, Learning & Instruction