The Significance of Creativity for Teaching Philosophy

Abstract: Although creativity constitutes a central human ability that needs to be fostered in school, research in didactics of philosophy hasn’t so far developed accounts of how to train creativity systematically. In this paper I will provide the foundations for a didactics of creativity for philosophy and ethics education. The approach is based on the insight that creativity is an important competence to be promoted in philosophy and ethics classrooms. I will define the concept of creativity and review key empirical findings from the field of educational psychology and psychology of learning which will help me working out a framework for fostering creativity in the philosophy classroom. Central to this is the idea that creativity can only be taught if the use of creative task types is preceded by a phase of acquiring domain-specific philosophical and ethical competences and knowledge. I will then argue that this objective can be implemented particularly well through the design thinking met.... https://ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/JDPh/article/view/9702

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: The Significance of Creativity for Teaching Philosophy ; volume:6 ; number:1 ; year:2022 ; Journal of didactics of philosophy ; 6, Heft 1 (2022)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Hochstetter, Gregor

Further information

• DOI: 10.46586/JDPh.2022.9702
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022110217540693642934
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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