{"id":80705,"date":"2015-04-23T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=8fbcbfd5bab747a4b07f275207abb773"},"modified":"2015-04-23T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:00:00","slug":"physics-textbooks-do-they-promote-or-inhibit-students-creative-thinking-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=80705","title":{"rendered":"Physics textbooks: do they promote or inhibit students? creative thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Creativity can be viewed from different perspectives, such as the creative thinking process, the<br \/>\nproduct, the creative environment and the individual. The physics domain, which is based on<br \/>\nexperiments, research, hypotheses and thinking outside the box, can serve as an excellent grounding<br \/>\nfor creativity development. This article focuses on creative thinking in physics textbooks. Creative<br \/>\nthinking includes divergent thinking, which consists of four core components: fluency, flexibility,<br \/>\nnovelty and elaboration. The purpose of our study is to understand whether and how physics textbooks<br \/>\n(such as the Israeli high-school book Newtonian Mechanics ) enable the promotion and development of<br \/>\ncreative thinking. Findings indicate that they do not, so there is a need to raise physics teachers?<br \/>\nawareness of the importance of creative thinking in learning materials. It is advisable for physics<br \/>\nteachers to engage in professional development courses in appropriate teaching strategies for th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creativity can be viewed from different perspectives, such as the creative thinking process, the<br \/>\nproduct, the creative environment and the individual. The physics domain, which is based on<br \/>\nexperiments, research, hypotheses and thinking outside the bo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}