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Exploring ICI

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Through questions

These are some of the questions students, teachers and researchers thought about when they were asked to think about Imagination, Creativity, & Innovation. The purpose of these questions and, many more to come, is to heighten our awareness about ICI, to make something from ICI: to save a life, to craft a school for every single person…These questions make up part of our dreams…
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams... 
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)   
"He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven" 
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How do the creative process and aesthetic experience (beauty) interact?

Are creativity and culture related? If so, how?

What are the specific properties of creativity in each of the arts, sciences, languages and mathematics? What properties of the creative process are universal?

What is the role of criticality in relation to imagination, creativity, and innovation?

What is the role of problem-solving in relation imagination, creativity, and innovation?

How does the Eastern approach to imagination, creativity, and innovation differ from the Western paradigm?

What psychological theories explain creativity (e.g., behaviourist/associative, humanist/developmental, psychoanalytical, systems and cognitive)?

What are the similarities and differences among the psychological theories?

What are the similarities and differences between problem-solving and creativity?

How can we evaluate the imaginative processes, creativity and innovation?


What are the inter-relationships among imagination, creativity and innovation? How do these relationships change over time? Across contexts? Across people?”


What role does critical theory and notions of social justice play in the theorizing and pedagogy of imagination, creativity and innovation?

Keywords: imaginative thinking, creative thinking, innovative thinking, and dimensions of creativity, artistic creativity, scientific creativity, and business innovation

    

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