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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/116181| Title: | Teacher creativity as combinatory play |
| Authors: | Xerri, Daniel |
| Keywords: | Poetry -- Study and teaching English poetry -- Study and teaching English literature -- Study and teaching Creative teaching -- Research Creative ability -- Study and teaching |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Publisher: | HLT Magazine and Pilgrims Limited |
| Citation: | Xerri, D. (2017). Teacher creativity as combinatory play. Humanising Language Teaching, 19(1). |
| Abstract: | More than 70 years ago, Jacques S. Hadamard conducted a psychological investigation aimed at understanding the mechanisms of thought employed by mathematicians in order to generate their ideas. As part of his research, Hadamard (1945) wrote to Albert Einstein enquiring about the mental processes he used in the course of his inventiveness. In his reply, Einstein (1954) explained that “combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought” (pp. 25-26). By means of this notion, he seems to imply that creativity includes the combination of different elements which are allowed to mingle and fuse into something new and unexpected. This kind of creativity has significant applications within the domain of teacher education (Xerri & Vassallo, 2016), but in order for this to be apparent it is first important to explore how different thinkers have conceptualized it. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/116181 |
| ISSN: | 17559715 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - CenELP |
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