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Valuing creativity in technology education
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posted on 2006-01-01, 00:00 authored by B Jane, Coral CampbellCoral CampbellWhen he was only twelve, Peter Jackson (director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy) cut fur strips from his mother's stole, and using wire he made a 20 cm model of King Kong. After a long incubation period for his ideas, he devised a modem version of the film King Kong. Research shows that the generation of new ideas (generative mental state) cannot exist at the same time as the non-generative/analytical mental state. This research has implications for technology educators who value creativity. We explored how an incubation period of non-focused thinking affected children's creative ideas for their technological products. Five teachers and 117 children from primary schools in a Victorian regional city and a semirural village participated in the study. The teachers factored in an incubation period that allowed time for the children's attention to wander in a relaxed and uncompetitive environment. We analyzed transcripts of teacher interviews and the children's written evaluations and drawings. We found a correlation between the incubation of ideas and the degree of creativity exhibited by the children. This key finding suggests that teachers of technology should take the incubation period into account in order to enhance creativity in the children's technology designs.
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International Conference on Technology Education Research (4th : 2006: Gold Coast, Qld.)Pagination
1 - 11Publisher
Griffith University, Centre for Learning ResearchLocation
Gold Coast, QueenslandPlace of publication
[Nathan,Qld.]Start date
2006-12-07End date
2006-12-09Language
engPublication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereed; E Conference publicationCopyright notice
2006, Griffith Institute for Educational ResearchEditor/Contributor(s)
D RoebuckTitle of proceedings
Values in technology education: Proceedings of the 4th Biennial International Conference on Technology Education ResearchUsage metrics
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