Sunday, October 26, 2014

Treffinger & Isaksen

The theme of this article is the history of Creative Problem Solving teaching strategies, especially concerned with best practices in gifted education.

Since it was introduced, understanding of effective CPS has evolved to become more flexible in how the recommended processes are applied, to more broadly recognize the diversity in people's styles, personalities, and capabilities, and to better incorporate research discoveries. In general, the history of CPS reflects and understanding that many different types of people can be creative and contribute to CPS activities.

The article provides a series of updates on how the methodology has changed over time, which seems useful to anyone who is studying the history of creativity/creativity studies, or to anyone who learned the method some time ago but perhaps has not updated their understanding as the theory has updated.

The article closes with four areas of future research and consideration:

  1. Moving away from CPS as an end unto itself and toward more specific applications
  2. Connecting CPS with the modern interest in standards
  3. Reflecting on the lockstep stages of process that many methods introduce
  4. To more deeply connect CPS with context, including people, processes, and outcomes (Puccio article seems to do some of this, for example)

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