Creativity Strategies for Research

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Creativity and Generating Research Ideas : 

Creativity and Generating Research Ideas Strategies from the field--- Joyce E. Juntune, Ph.D. Department of Educational Psychology Institute for Applied Creativity http://creativity.tamu.edu

Creativity & Generating Ideas : 

2 Creativity & Generating Ideas Creative thinking requires that we think in new directions.

Breaking Mental Set : 

3 Breaking Mental Set Thinking outside of boundaries - a deliberate act

Creativity & Generating Ideas : 

4 Creativity & Generating Ideas Creative thinking gives you an edge—a way to look at things differently.

Ideas have a life span : 

5 Ideas have a life span Why new ways of thinking-- Grow? develop? serve a purpose? need to be buried and go on to create new ideas

Meet change with new ideas : 

6 Meet change with new ideas Invention of telegraph Pony Express? bought faster horses That failed? hired better riders That failed? went out of business

Creativity & Generating Ideas : 

7 Creativity & Generating Ideas Strategies Focus Information

Focus (deBono) : 

8 Focus (deBono) Area Focus separate “where” & “why” spend time “just thinking” about …

Focus (deBono) : 

9 Focus (deBono) “New ideas for…” “Ideas around the subject of…”

Focus (deBono) : 

10 Focus (deBono) Area Focus Focus creative energies on opportunities as well as problems Wrong ? fix! Working ? why?

Focus (deBono) : 

11 Focus (deBono) Area Focus Build a creative hit list.

Movement Ladder : 

12 Movement Ladder Focus: improve achievement scores in low SES schools Why? How? Why else? Why else? How else? How else? decrease drop-out rate tutors

Random Entry (deBono) : 

13 Used to generate unique ideas. Great for idea improvement Random Entry (deBono)

Random Entry (deBono) : 

14 Select a random object. Write the object word. List words that come to mind when thinking of the object . Random Entry (deBono)

Random Entry (deBono) : 

15 See where the random word leads your thoughts on the Focus. Random Entry (deBono)

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16 Random Object Trigger Words Focus New Ideas Random Entry (deBono)

Creativity & Generating Ideas : 

17 Combination and collaboration leads to new ideas and insights. Creativity & Generating Ideas

Slide 18: 

18 Combine unrelated ideas

Zones of Acceptance : 

Zones of Acceptance acceptance indifference rejection Sherif, M. (1961). Univ. of Oklahoma,

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20 Creative thinkers create order in disorder & disorder in order (Montouri, 1996) Creativity& Generating Ideas

Creative strategies : 

21 Creative strategies Force a shift in perspective See a different point of view Provide new input to improve output

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22 The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious. Ted Levitt Creativity& Generating Ideas