2024/03/19 by Jamie Frueh · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Education and Critical Thinking Development #Creativity in Education and Neuroscience #Global Education and Multiculturalism
paper · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544891.013.12
openalex publication_date 2024/03/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract Recognizing global politics courses as opportunities for both students and teachers to express their creativity enhances the educational experience for all involved. Constructivist approaches to human creativity provide an ontological foundation for pedagogical strategies that treat learners and teachers as collaborators in the project of education and pedagogies of creativity engage the agency of both students and teachers of global politics. Learners are agents of the changes to their own knowledge and understanding. Teachers are agents of the learning environments in which engaged and metacognitive learners attend both to course material and to the mental processes through which they integrate new ideas into their existing understandings. Design thinking is one process for actualizing instructor creativity in building coursework and classroom tactics specific to learning outcomes, institutional contexts, and student populations. For example, designing and implementing group oral examinations improved learning about both the patterns of human interactions across differences and the processes of group deliberations.