Critical And Creative Thinking In Life

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Critical And Creative Thinking In Life
Managing Organization ChangeCustomized AIT
Training ProgramFor the National Family Planning
Coordinating Board of Indonesia
The Mirror of the Economic World

• A session with
• Dr. Prof. B.K. Passi
• Prasena Think Tank
• 12 December 2002

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Emerging goals of life

• Full development of human potentials through
  critical and creative thinking
• Do you agree?

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Are critical and creative thinking act as our
goals or means?
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Why are critical and creative thinking gaining
importance these days?
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Critical and creative thinking are primary types
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Approaches Conventional-Creative-Critical
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Futuristic
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How powerful are brain and mind?
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Brain and the Universe

• Brain has 10 billion nerve cells
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• Brain cell inter-connections more than the total
  universe- atoms?
• We are using 10 of our brains
• Brain is a self expanding and self organizing
  entity

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Left Brain Right Brain
Human Information Processing -- HIPS
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Systems 99 of human potential is lost

Third management loss is 66
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Mind another view (Dr. Jumsai)

Super-conscious
Intuition
Five senses
Conscious
Emotions
Environment
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Critical-Creative Multiple Intelligences
CRITICAL
Naturalistic
Musical
Linguistic
Body Kinesthetic
Spatial
Existential
Interpersonal
Logical Mathematical
Intrapersonal
CREATIVE
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Multiple intelligence three categories

• 1. Object-related forms of intelligence subject
  to the kind of control exerted by the structure
  and functions of the particular objects with
  which individuals come into contact.
• Spatial Intelligence- Picasso
• Logical-Mathematical Intelligence- Einstein
• Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence- Charlie
  Chaplin
• 2. Object-free forms of intelligence not
  fashioned or channeled by the physical world but,
  instead, reflect the structures of particular
  languages and music.
• Linguistic Intelligence- Tagore
• Musical Intelligence- Beethoven
• 3. Personal forms of intelligence reflect a set
  of powerful and competing constraints - the
  existence of one's own person the existence of
  other persons the culture's presentations and
  interpretations of selves.
• Intrapersonal Intelligence- Freud
• Interpersonal Intelligence- Gandhi

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What is Critical Thinking?
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Critical Thinking
...a conscious and deliberate process which is
used to interpret or evaluate information and
experiences with a set of reflective attitudes
and abilities that guide thoughtful beliefs and
actions
Mertes, L. (1991). Thinking and writing. Middle
School Journal, 22, 24-25.
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Critical Thinking
...the intellectually disciplined process of
actively and skillfully conceptualizing,
applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or
evaluating information gathered from, or
generated by, observation, experience,
reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a
guide to belief and action
Scriven, M., Paul, R. (1992, Critical Thinking
Conference, Atlanta, GA.
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Critical Thinking A Cyclic Process

• Critical thinking is purposeful, self-regulatory
  judgment which results in interpretation,
  analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as
  explanation of the evidential, conceptual,
  methodological, criteriological, or contextual
  considerations upon which that judgment is based.

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Critical thinking process-
Considerations
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Creative Thinking
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Is Creativity?
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• Mysterious to understand
• Unlimited in scope
• Meant for all historical times
• Lies in every activity
• Possessed by all
• Luxury of advanced nations
• Can it be developable?

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Myths about the process of developing creativity

• Creativity is natural gift it cannot be taught
• Creativity is in rebels
• Creativity lies in right-brain
• Art, artists only has creativity
• Releasing blocks will bring creativity
• Intuition alone helps creativity
• Needs craziness for creativity
• Scatter-gun success for creativity
• Big-jump and small-jump creativity
• Group or Individual which one is useful
• Intelligence and creativity are same

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Passi definition of creativity

• Creative thinking is an action of mind that
  purposefully manipulates the environment for
  creating new ideas and establish novel patterns
  and relationships.
• Creativity is a multi-facet and multi-dimensional
  attribute differentially distributed among people
  and includes chiefly factors of seeing problems,
  fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration,
  and includes the passion of inquisitiveness and
  persistency.

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Creativity is walking alone
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ive -ive Environments
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Seven Environments
7. Self actualization

1.Calm
5.Cautious
4.Releasing
2.Blocking
3.Oppression
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Creativity-blocks which one(s) we suffer most
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CREATIVITY BLOCKS

• LAW OF REGRESSIVE
• The nicely-adapted organisms are least likely to
  survive in major change

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When To Use Creativity?
1 While tackling old problems
11 When logical thinking fails
2During free time after problems
3 When pay off of new ideas is large
10 To escape from traditions
4 Routine reexamination of assumptions
9 To dissolve artificial problems
5 Generating alternative decisions
8 To find new opportunities
6 Inferring new utility of data
7 Inferring new utility of data
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Approaches to develop thinking ?
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Approaches Teaching Thinking
2 By-product approach
1Natural approach
thinking as a subject
3 Logic approach
5 Puzzles and games approach
4 Discussion approach
Direct approach
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Can we link these approaches to disciplines?
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Can meditation and yoga help us
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