Date: Tuesday Feb 10 at 9am PT
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98564124237 [zoom.us]
Meeting ID: 985 6412 4237
Passcode: Vygotsky
Guest Speaker: Francine Smolucha
Summary: The study of scientific creativity changed dramatically in 1962 when Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was published. It was the end of the simplistic notion that a scientist could observe nature objectively without preconceptions. Kuhn argued persuasively that the scientific enterprise was a search for fundamental paradigms serving as frameworks uniting theory, methods, and cultural assumptions. Oftentimes these paradigmatic frameworks include a metaphor such as Darwin’s “tree of life” or Kekule’s benzene “ring”.
This recognition of the importance of imagination in scientific creativity was itself a paradigm shift. Research in the past twenty-five years has yielded interesting new ways of assessing and teaching scientific creativity as a multi-functional activity.
From a Vygotskian perspective, the collaboration of several higher psychological functions.
Readings:
T.S. Kuhn (1962/2012). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition. University of Chicago Press.
Binar Kurnia Prahani a, Iqbal Ainur Rizki a, Nadi Suprapto a, Irwanto Irwanto b, Muhammed Akif Kurtuluş (2024). “Mapping Research on Scientific Creativity: A Bibliometric Review of the Literature in the Last 20 Years”. In Elsevier Publishing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1871187124000336
Atesgoz, N. and Sak, U. (2021)Test of scientific creativity animations for children: Development and validity study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S187118712100033X?via%3Dihub