An Exploratory Study Into Instruction, Creativity, and Facilitating Reasoning

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Abstract

This study explores the connection between types of instruction, creative dispositions and reasoning. Interviews, artefacts and an analysis of classroom videos were used to analyse the proportion of time spent on different reasoning process. Both Australian and Indonesian classrooms were examined for reasoning processes and creative dispositions. The claim making was strongly related to the use of inquisitiveness. We conclude that the observed differences in the creative dispositions emphasised helped to explain why the reasoning process was not sequential and supports Tytler and Prain’s (2010) view that learning is somewhat a fluid process. We suggest that teachers moving between creative dispositions to facilitate a change in reasoning, can explain some of this process.

Authors

• Bruce G. Waldrip, University of Tasmania

• John Kenny, University of Tasmania

• Ari Widow, Indonesian University of Education