Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Creativity, Constructivism, and Accommodation of Difference Compared



Creativity: Some of the elements of creativity as one would put are (but not limited to) having the capability to think beyond the content in the box, be innovative, inventive or discover some sort of unique ideas. For sure all these just tells only half of the tale.

However, creativity normally takes a lot more than inspirations and of course it comes with some cost.  There should altogether be different levels of creativity in schools ranging from a simple short story from a learner to using technology in being creative. There should also be time and need for creativity for instance one would wonder why should a doctor learn another skill to do operations, yet it is the same patient, matter of fact, the operation would always be done in similar way but during stitching when there are some complications, the doctor will now have to be creative to discover his own methods of dealing with such complications. This is creativity!

Constructivism requires the children to learn effectively through interactions with various experiences in their natural environmental setting. This philosophy works well more specially by taking learning to be a process that depends on the prior ideas the learner brings to the knowledge and that it is all about sharing and negotiating a common understanding of a situation.
Piaget also believed in the importance of children interaction and actual manipulation as essential to the gaining of knowledge which would be termed as the constructivism.

Accommodation of Differences: individuals do not necessarily start on equal footing, equal treatment. Different people have difference historic experiences to tell, the class room requires space for taking care of individual differences of viewpoints, desires and even learning styles. Taking care of individual differences ensures that all the learners get an schooling that satisfies all their needs while developing an understanding and patience in the entire school system. Teachers and parents regularly tackle the accommodation of learners with problems as they attempt to create decisions concerning the childrens’ training.

Therefore, there is a relationship between creativity, constructivism and accommodation of individuals in schools in that they all say similar things about the learner though in yet another approach and one may lead to the other.







3 comments:

  1. Hallo, I wonder what is in your images!

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  2. Great post Mustafa. However your images are not visible.

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  3. Thanks to you all, i will reorganise and try to reload the images again.

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