Organized Science and Creativity

Science as organized scepticism.

Real progress in understanding how the natural world works only truly began with the Enlightenment, with its guiding principle that the truth is to be found not by appeal to authority but by experimental tests and evidence. Unfortunately, but understandably, science is too often seen--in school, in university and especially on quiz shows--as certainty. In fact, science (including social science...

The battle for creativity: frontiers in science and science education.

oving the Science of Team Science Forward ollaboration and Creativity

bstract: Teams of scientists representing diverse disciplines are often brought together for purposes of better understanding and, ultimately, resolving urgent public health and environmental problems. Likewise, the emerging field of the science of team science draws on diverse disciplinary perspectives to better understand and enhance the processes and outcomes of scientific collaboration. In ...

Creativity Through Technology And Science In Xenakis

Nowadays it is common for creativity to be linked to technological advancement and there is a widely held impression that new ideas and concepts emerge daily as a result of technology. However, technology and even science and progress are often criticized leading towards a tendency for simplification and more human and natural consideration of reality. This issue is much discussed in music and ...

Metaphor and Creativity in Learning Science

Janice Hansen & Lindsey E. Richland Department of Education University of California, Irvine Eric P. S. Baumer Information Science Cornell University William Tomlinson Information Technology University of California, Irvine ABSTRACT While much work has examined how students think and and learn with metaphors, relatively little research has focused on thinking about metaphors, that is, thinking ...