This edited volume brings together a group of international researchers and theorists from various intellectual and analytic traditions to explore the role uncertainty plays in creativity, learning, and development. Contributors to this volume draw on existing programs of research as well as introduce new and even speculative directions for research, theory and practice.
Learning and life are filled with uncertainty. Although the experience of uncertainty can cause emotional discomfort or cognitive rigidity, uncertainty serves as a catalyst and condition for change. In this way, uncertainty represents a core facet in the interrelationship among creativity, learning, and development. Considerations for both the benefits and potential costs of uncertainty will be addressed in this volume with an aim of understanding how uncertainty can be better understood in light of creativity, learning, and development. Taken together this volume stands to contribute to our collective understanding of the role that uncertainty plays in learning and life and highlights how conceptualizing and studying uncertainty in new ways can promote positive and lasting change.
Series Foreword.- Part I. Understanding Uncertainty.-
1. Introduction.-
2. Not knowing.-
3. Uncertainty Makes Creativity Possible.-
4. Play,
Reflection, and the Quest for Uncertainty.- Part II. Transforming Uncertainty
into Creativity.-
5. Beyond tolerating ambiguity: How emotionally intelligent
people can channel uncertainty into creativity.-
6. Living with Uncertainty
in the Creative Process: A Self-Regulatory Perspective.-
7. The Uncertainty
of Creativity: Opening Possibilities and Reducing Restrictions through
Mindfulness.-
8. From Uncertainty to Insight: An Autocatalytic Framework.-
Part III. Uncertainty and Creativity in Science and Mathematics.-
9. Grasping
the Uncertainty of Scientific Phenomena: A Creative, Agentic, and Multimodal
Model for Sensemaking.-
10. The relationship of the Five Legs of Creativity
Theory and uncertainty in the generation of mathematical creativity.-
11.
Engineering uncertainty in the mathematics classroom: Implications for
classroom tasks and learning.- Part IV. Uncertainty in Learning and
Development.-
12. Do children think Alea Iacta Est?: Developing concepts of
uncertainty in causal reasoning.-
13. Getting comfortable with uncertainty:
The road to creativity in preschool children.-
14. Developing intellectual
character: An educational perspective on how uncertainty-driven curiosity can
support learning.-
15. (Un)certain relation between social validation and
creators self-concept.- Part V. Transforming Education in Response to
Uncertainty.-
16. Exploring uncertainty by groaning in the groan zone: A
pattern for emergent conversation and learning.-
17. Creatively confronting
the adjacent possible: Educational leadership and the Fourth Industrial
Revolution.-
18. Learning in an Uncertain World: Transforming Higher
Education for the Anthropocene.
Ronald A. Beghetto is an internationally recognized expert on creative thought and action in educational settings. Dr. Beghetto holds the Pinnacle West Presidential Chair and serves as a Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Dr. Beghetto is the Editor for the Journal of Creative Behavior, Co-Editor for Review of Research in Education, Series Co-Editor for Creative Theory and Action in Education (Springer), and has served as a creativity advisor for LEGO Foundation and the Cartoon Network. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (Div. 10, APA), and the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI). He is the 2018 recipient of the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts and 2008 recipient of Daniel E. Berlyne Award from Div. 10 ofthe American Psychological Association.
Garrett J. Jaeger is a Research Fellow at the LEGO Foundation in Billund, Denmark. His research focuses on mapping exploratory behaviors to better understand how play and creativity are linked. He previously studied exploratory play as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz after holding the Thomas Murphy research fellowship at the Center for Childhood Creativity at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Garrett received the E. Paul Torrance Endowed Student Scholarship while developing psychometrics for the creative process as he earned his PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Georgia.
