ED 692 - Creative and Productive Thinking

3 Credit(s)

The first part of the course considers the meaning of the concept of thinking and then looks specifically at techniques of critical thinking. These techniques include most of the tools of informal logic such as linguistic logic, conceptual analysis, and the logic of inquiry. Specific emphasis is placed on the recognition of fallacious reasoning and the development of rationally defensible arguments. During the second half of the course, definitions of creativity and a review of the research on creativity are presented. Formal and informal assessment techniques for identifying the creative productive students are discussed.