Creative Imagination Research Articles

Integration Merdeka Belajar concept in development STEMC module for electrochemical and renewable energy at vocational school SMK SMTI Banda Aceh

Indonesia’s energy consumption needs to reduce its dependence on fossil energy. The Ministry of Education and Culture plays a role in developing renewable energy through vocational education by improving the quality of vocational education graduates through the Merdeka Learning curriculum. The three advantages of the Merdeka Learning curriculum are that it is simpler, in-depth, independent, relevant, and interactive. The STEM Research Center, Syiah Kuala University has initiated STEMC which can fulfill its excellence. STEMC consists of ISLE-based STEM learning activities which are one of the inquiry learning models. Electrochemistry and renewable energy educational materials have been developed using this model, to study the concepts of electric current in wires, electrolysis, and fuel cells. SMTI Banda Aceh Vocational School students are enthusiastic and happy to take part in the practicum stages. They better understand the concept of science because it combines theory and real practice. This learning module is designed with stages that help the constructivism process to increase the effectiveness of learning to be more meaningful. This module also helps students solve real-life problems by honing cognitive skills, designing experiments, utilizing technology, applying knowledge, and combining cognitive, affective, and psychomotor knowledge. As well as arousing curiosity and triggering students’ creative imagination and critical thinking.

Gender Stereotypes in Historical Biographical Novels for Children and Young Adults

Biographical novels for children constitute an interesting case, as authors employ their creative imagination while combining history and factual descriptions to invite young readers to become part of a distant reality rich in social, anthropological and historical significance. This article focuses on the work of Greek writer Kira Sinou titled Anna and Theophano: Princesses Abroad (Άννα και Θεοφανώ, πριγκίπισσες στα ξένα, Κέδρος 2004) and her effort to narrate the life of significant feminine personalities of the Byzantine period in a “truthful” sense, so as to revive literary past-present dialogues. This article aspires to highlight the ways in which the author makes use of the narrative nature of historiography to reveal the Byzantine past to children and adolescents, attempting not only to underline the importance of timeless sociopolitical issues, but also to contribute to the shaping of children’s self-identity and attitudes by using gender stereotypes and critical literacy practices.

Revival and Multiplatform Presentation of Forgotten Religious Heritage Sites in the Project Named “Sacred Past”

The objective of the paper is to shed light on the importance of the digital presentation of religious heritage and present the multimedia documentation of a chapel developed within the “Oltári Múlt” (“Sacred Past”, in Hungarian) project. It aims to preserve the values of medieval churches through video documentation. Walls and stones come alive for contemporary visitors, connecting the present with the past. The paper showcases an example of a chapel and how video documentation, virtual tours, and other ICT tools are applied in the project to create a digital narrative with a creative vision and mastermind approach.

Mind, Body, Heart and Spirit: Leader Transformation and the Coming into Being of the Leader’s Creative Vision

This article aims to explore and discuss how the leader’s creative vision comes into being within the leader and how it triggers the attainment of organizational transformation. Adopting the embedded multiple case study approach, three descriptive cases (organizational transformation initiatives) were selected for the analysis. In-depth interviews were carried out with the leader of the organizational transformation initiatives and fifteen respondents involved in the transformations. Westley and Mintzberg’s Visionary Leadership Theory and Brook’s Theorem on Transformation were used as the theoretical lenses of the study. Findings indicate the transformation process through which the leader’s creative vision comes into being as an outcome of a ‘whole-person’ transformation involving the mind, body, heart, and spirit of the leader, which passes through the states of ‘active desire’, ‘intent’, ‘confidence’, and finally ‘action’ when the leader’s creative vision is shared with the followers. The contribution of these findings to theory and practice are also discussed.

Feasibility Analysis of VR Virtual Technology Application in Art Design Teaching

VR virtual reality technology is now used in various fields, in recent years, the technology is also gradually applied to teaching. VR virtual technology can build a simulation learning environment, so that students have a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the courses of art design, and cultivate students' creative ability and imagination. This paper analyzes the status quo of VR virtual reality education technology and the advantages of VR technology in teaching, puts forward the teaching method of integrating VR virtual reality technology into classroom teaching, and discusses the feasibility of VR virtual reality technology, so that the technology can be widely used in the teaching of art design major.

Creative vision as a legal category: concept, legal nature, correlation with related categories

The article considers the main views set out in the scientific literature, as well as in judicial practice, regarding the interpretation of the creative component in the creation of objects of intellectual activity. The meaning of creative work in the creation of such objects is analyzed — from pre-revolutionary lawyers to the modern understanding. The author distinguishes between mechanically created objects and creative objects, identifies two criteria that are necessary to recognize the object created by creative way: objective and subjective. The understanding and correlation of such categories as “creativity”, “creative work”, “creative vision”, “single creative idea”, “creative conception” is analyzed. It is the use of such categories that allows the court to establish the protectability of objects of exclusive rights, to distinguish complex and composite objects, as well as objects of independent creation and repetition of someone else’s work. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that for the definition of creativity as one of the components of the legal qualification necessary for the protectability of the object the most comprehensive is the concept of “creative vision”.

THE AUTONOMY PROJECT OF C. CASTORIADIS IN THE CONTEXT OF NEW COSMOPOLITANISM

The author addresses the prospects of the new cosmopolitan- ism project, which appears as a choice focused on individuality and its survival as an integrity in diversity. This reveals the relevance of Castoriadis’s autonomy project. The author believes that Castoriadis’s language of describing social reality can be used quite organically to characterise the latest trends in the development of cosmopolitan practices. The substantiation of the formulated assumptions is the purpose of this article. The article shows that new cosmopolitanism is an attempt to find an inclusive solution to the problem of universalism, which classical modernity and old cosmopolitanism failed to solve. The development of the discourse and practices of autonomy can become one of the effective means of such a solution. The main idea of the paper is that the projects of autonomy and new cosmopolitanism have similar goals and a direction, and they are a means of implementing cosmopolitan attitudes, or the process of cosmopolitanization. New cosmopolitan theories speak primarily of others, of otherness and autonomy. Autonomous societies can develop and implement cosmopolitan programs. If there is no adequate reflexivity in a heteronomous society, then autonomous societies are reflexive by their very nature. The new cosmopolitanism revives the project of autonomy, takes it from a purely theoretical dimension to a practical one, and allows to discuss its practical implementation. To clarify this parallel, it is important to consider Castoriadis’s interpretation of the political dimension of social life. In this case, we are talking about developing cosmopolitan citizenship, which represents the highest level of individual autonomy. The article shows the most important role of creative imagination in its interpretation by Castoriadis in solving the identified problems and establishing various institutions of society. The article concludes that paideia is the central dimension of any policy of autonomy, which gives form to social chaos. Thus, we stop to divide the human world between ‘us’ and ‘them’ — us: the only real human beings; the others: savages, barbarians, heathens, we stop considering our representation of the world as the only meaningful one. This is the essence of cosmopolitanism as it is interpreted by the new cosmopolitanism.

The "unseen land of thought"

Through the construction of their miniature books, the Brontës demonstrate the critical, dynamic relationship between inert matter and the"material imagination," as theorised by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. To make the books, the children drew on the resourceful things around their home: a range of literary matter that stimulated their imaginations and of paper scraps that they used to materialise it. This essay shows how all four Brontë children selected and creatively refashioned this material into their writing, crafting their own worlds with material and immaterial fragments. It demonstrates how scaling, and the process of miniaturisation were critical to their cognitive understanding, imaginative creativity, and writing practices; and it explains how their childhood imagination became a vital lifelong aspect of their identities that was always entangled with real life. Thus, the Brontës’ child-formed miniature books reflect Bachelard’s notion of imagination and matter awakening individuals to energy and agency.

Identity and Biographical Construction and Life Project: Perspectives According to High School Students in Brazil

This paper is the result of a survey carried out in a public school in a city in the state of São Paulo/Brazil. We aimed at analyzing the Life Project module, a component of the curriculum of high schools that have the PEI- Full Time Education Program. We found the central focus of the analysis in the established principles, syllabuses and the students’ feelings regarding such contents and the proposition of a life project. We defined as a central focus of the analysis the established principles, syllabuses and the students’ feelings regarding such contents and the proposition of a life project. This longitudinal research has accompanied a group of ten students from their first to their third year of high school, at a school selected for this research. We used a discussion group as a research methodology and data analysis we based on Critical Discourse Analysis. As a conclusion, we considered that the excessive focus on issues such as socio-emotional skills, social initiative, self-confidence, responsibility, empathy, determination, assertiveness, stress tolerance, confidence and creative imagination, places too much responsibility on students and little reflection about the institutions responsible for this matter. Aspects such as public policies to support students choose a future profession (offer cultural and social experiences in order to help students expand their cultural and social capital; economic support to guarantee that students keep on studying) constitute a real contribution for students to be able to build their life project, alongside an identity and biographical construction.

Application of Student Worksheets Based on Hyperdocs in Chemistry Learning on Scientific Creativity

Creativity problems are now considered a crucial ability/skill for the future of education and work. Currently, creativity is seen as urgently needing to be improved in the learning process to achieve better learning quality. This research was a descriptive-qualitative that aims to describe the utilization of Hyperdocs towards scientific creativity of SMA Labschool UNTAD Palu students in chemistry learning on the buffer topics The research subjects consisted of 20 students who were obtained based on a purposive sampling technique. The data collection instrument used hyperdocs-based worksheets which consisted of 14 scientific creativity questions that had been validated by a team of experts. Based on the analysis of percentage data and the category of scientific creativity, the test questions in the first and second sessions showed that the average scores for the aspects of unusual uses, problem finding, product improvement, creative imagination, and problem-solving were in a good category. Furthermore, the science experiment and product design aspects are in the sufficient category. So that it can be said that overall the scientific creativity of SMA Labschool UNTAD Palu class XI MIA 1 is in a good category.

Learning Electric Circuits Using the STEM Approach to Improve Scientific Thinking Skills and Practice

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of using the STEM approach in learning direct electric circuits to achieve high school students' scientific and practical thinking skills. This research is a quasi-experimental method. This study used two class groups, namely the experimental class and the control class, with the experimental class being the class group that received the STEM learning treatment. In contrast, the control class was the class group that only received the immediate learning model treatment. The research design uses a non-equivalent control group design. The research was carried out in the even semester of 2021-2022 and the place of this research was one of the schools in Serang City, Banten province. The sample consisted of two classes; one class was given the learning treatment with the STEM approach, which served as the experimental class, and the other class received no therapy and functioned as the control class. Each course has 40 students, including 20 male and 20 female students. The average age of students is 17 years. The instrument used in this study was in the form of 10 essay questions. This question covered electric current circuit material with indicators of scientific thinking ability and practice. The instrument used in this study was in the form of 10 essay questions. This question covered electric current circuit material with indicators of scientific thinking ability and practice. The data obtained after the research will be analyzed using N-Gain data analysis. The N-gain result in the experimental class was 0.67, while the control class was 0.46. The N-Gain results of the two types show the same category, namely the good category. However, the N-gain results from the experimental class show a value greater than 21% than the control class. These results prove that learning electric circuits using STEM is more effective than learning directly. The implications of this research are 1) It can foster an understanding of the relationship between the concept of electric circuits with practical skills in assembling electric current circuits, 2) Arouse students' curiosity and activate creative imagination and critical thinking, 3) Help students to understand and experiment with the scientific process.

Toward conceptualizations of musical creativities in secondary education: An integrative literature review between 1990 and 2020

Creativity has been described as an indissociable component of music education, complex to conceptualize and often overgeneralized. This article provides an overview of existing research on musical creativities in secondary education between 1990 and 2020. A total of 76 articles published in peer-reviewed journals are reviewed according to PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines. To present and discuss the results, several dimensions of creativity research have been clustered into five categories: product, person/group, creative process, context, and domain. The 22.37% of the articles focus on the creative process, 14.47% on the context, 13.16% on the person/group perspective, and 1.32% on the product. The 48.68% of the studies focus on the domain perspective, showing an emphasis on specific activities traditionally associated with musical creativity like composing or improvising. Music listening is not present, and various forms of musical creativities are underrepresented. Over these three decades, an increasing orientation on teaching and learning within a sociocultural framework can be observed. In addition, the pedagogical challenges concern an expanded vision of creativity, albeit based on a specific and precisely defined framework.

United Arab Emirates (UAE): A scientometric assessment of Covid-19 publications

Objective. The United Arab Emirates continues to undertake and sustain its research pursuits in Covid-19 as a matter of strategy, considering that the country is facing unique challenges in this area of research. The paper seeks to analyze UAE publications on Covid-19 research and describe its research trends.
 Methodology. A literature search on UAE publications on Covid-19 was conducted using the Scopus database, limiting the search period for the study to December 1, 2019 - April 7, 2023. Data were retrieved and downloaded for analysis using Microsoft Excel and Scopus Citation Overview tools. VOSviewer software was used to provide creative visualization of the relationships across researchers, institutions, and journals that reported UAE publications.
 Results: 48,1461 publications were published on Covid-19 from December 2019 till April 7, 2023. Of these, the UAE contributed 3402 publications, constituting 0.71% share of global output and registered 14.63 average citations per article (CPP). The 732 (21.52%) UAE papers had received external funding support, and another 2493 (73.28%) papers appeared through international collaboration with countries such as the U.K (n=556), USA (n=553), India (n=448), and Saudi Arabia (n=399). The leading UAE participating organizations in Covid-19 research include the University of Sharjah (n=619), United Arab Emirates University (n=520), and Zayed University (n=239). The organizations which made the most citation impact in terms of CPP and RCI include American University in the Emirates (40.54 and 3.34), Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medical & Health Sciences (34.4 and 2.83), and Al Jalila Children’s Specialty Hospital (31.88 and 2.62). The leading UAE participating authors in Covid-19 research include R. Halwani (n=83), Z. Umar (n=38), and Q. Hamid (n=37). The authors who made the most citation impact in terms of CPP and RCI include R. Halwani (52.61 and 4.33), H.Q. Al Shamsi (30.24 and 2.49) and A.S. Al Dhaheri (28.81 and 2.37). The most utilized channels of research communication in Covid-19 research include PLOS One (n=73), International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health (n=46), and Scientific Reports (n=36). The journals which received the most citations for UAE papers on Covid-19 research include the International Journal of Infectious Diseases (30.56 CPP), IEEE Access (20.49 CPP), and Frontiers in Psychiatry (17.40 CPP).
 Conclusion: The study presents the current status of research and the publication trends in Covid-19 in the UAE, particularly its most used sources for research publication, most productive and most cited organizations and authors, and its most sought-after topics in Covid-19 research. Strengthening research collaboration between UAE and the Middle East countries and with the developed world countries will further help UAE improve the quality and quantity of its research on Covid-19 and help implement its Covid-19 policies in the region.

The Falsafa Prophetology in Modernist Discourse

The article shows how the concept of «natural prophecy», which developed within the framework of Falsafa (the Hellenizing philosophy of classical Islam) and traditionally qualifi ed as heterodox, was revived in the works of Muslim modernists of the 19th-20th centuries (especially Jamalad-din al-Afghani, Muhammad Abdo and their followers), who focused on the reconstruction of theological discourse in the spirit of openness to religious and confessional diversity, scientifi c rationality and socio-cultural progress. In reformist theology were accumulated both rational substantiations of prophetism, which were characteristic of Falsafa: (1) socio-teleological, proceeding from the necessity of a prophet as a legislator, and (2) psycho-noetic, which appeals to the presence of a man with the ultimate exalted soul, especially in terms of intellectual intuition and creative imagination. Developing the Falsafa’s thesis about two types of miracle as proof of the authencity of prophetic missions — «external» (material) and «adequate» (spiritual), modernists teach about the Quranic message as focusing exclusively on the second type. This marks the transition of humanity to the phase of adulthood, and with it the «sealing of the prophethood».

Image denoising application in visual creation of art design based on intelligent algorithm

Image denoising application in visual creation of art design based on intelligent algorithm

“African magic” or “African science”: Issues of technology in African higher education

AbstractAfrican ideas, science, technology, scholarship and worldviews have been disproportionately displaced and marginalized in relevant global dialogues. In academic circles, African methods of knowing have been questioned, undervalued, mocked, misconstrued, and disregarded, causing apprehension. These negative attitudes are internalized via the educational system, stifling agency and conditioning African learners to rely on technology from outside sources, resulting in the exteriorization of innovation and creativity. African inventiveness becomes “African magic” with no real desire to interrogate, explain, or grasp its basic mechanics. This article contends that technology and creative imaginations exist in African societies. The task, however, remains the exploration and integration of African knowledge systems into higher education. The study aims to demonstrate how the interaction of two components of traditional African education—a sense of community and informal learning—could assist in the embrace, facilitation, and mainstreaming of marginalized African technologies. Although the paper may appear eclectic, it is intended to conscientiously push the paradigm that technology has been integral to African education. Regardless of Africa's technical challenges, salvation does not lie in excessive external reliance but rather in investing and building on Indigenous African knowledges/practices in order to establish an African technological identity. Practitioner notesWhat is already known about this topic: African dependency on foreign technology. Lack of interest in African science and technology. Lack of African technological identity. Low technology penetration in African higher education. What this paper adds: The need to explore African science and technology. Mind‐set change towards African science and technology. Mainstreaming African achievements in science and technology. Implications for practice and/or policy: Indigenization of science and technology. Indigenous empowerment. Exploring alternate ways of knowing. Changing perspectives on science and technology.

Race & representation in applied theatre: walking a fine line to salvage empathy & creative imagination

ABSTRACT This article examines the evolving nature of how race and difference are represented in creative applied theatre work in classroom and community-based settings. The author uses several examples of performances and workshops she’s attended to ask important questions that point to the tensions percolating in our discipline around who gets to tell a story, how, and in what way this telling shapes perceptions and notions of the Other. At the heart of this inquiry is a desire to salvage creativity, play, and imagination in an environment that is increasingly fraught with cancel culture, virtue signalling, and identity politics.

Jude Tallichet’s sculpture of ordinary objects: Life as we don’t quite know it

This essay explores how the visual world not only speaks to us passively but can also expect us to respond actively. It proposes that an installation/exhibition of sculpture, in this case Jude Tallichet’s Heat Map, which opened at Smack Mellon and closed again within days as the city went into a COVID-19-induced lockdown, can transform into a set of presumptive living visual identities in the making that ask us to respond to their invitation to visual and social conversation. The installation was not originally about COVID-19, but as the nation changed, so did its meaning. By inverting the question of how artists respond to a critical situation by asking instead how images respond to external events over time, we can begin to comprehend not just how artists make meaning with works of art but how works of art make meaning within themselves. My analytical framework leads to an acknowledgement that there are many kinds of visual culture and many kinds of artists across culture. Art is no longer for the privileged and artists are no longer their subalterns. Our conversations with the art constituting our visual culture should be as diverse and as individual today as their visual creations.

The Effect of Creative and Traditional Games on Motor Coordination and Creativity in Action and Movement in Girls 6 to 7 Years Old

Background and Aims Creative solutions are essential to success in sports, the development of talent, and the selection system, and it is important to be flourished in the early years. On the other hand, the play environment is one of the most effective environments in supporting the motor creativity of preschool children. This study aimed to investigate the effect of creative and traditional games on motor coordination and creativity in action and movement in girls aged 6 to 7 years. Methods The present quasi-experimental study is an applied study that was conducted with a pretest-posttest design. A total of 107 girls aged 6-7 years were selected by the available sampling method based on inclusion and exclusion criteria and divided into two creative and traditional games. Demographic questionnaire, thinking creatively in action and movement (TCAM) test, motor coordination test (The Körperkoordinations test für kinder [KTK]), and motor games were used. The practice protocol included creative movement games such as crab-style walking relief competition, bubble game, hungry wolf, play with small colored balls, balloon games, and traditional games. For the pretest and posttest, the TCAM and KTK tests were performed. Data were analyzed using combined factor analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni post hoc test using SPSS software, version 22. Results The results showed that the main effect of the evaluation steps was significant (P=0.001) for the motor coordination variable and was better in both groups posttest in the motor coordination test. The main effect of the group is significant (P=0.001), and the creative exercise group had better motor coordination in the posttest. The interaction effect of the group in the evaluation stages is significant (P=0.001). The average total score of creativity and components of fluidity, initiation, and imagination in the posttest was higher in the pretest, and the creative game group obtained higher scores in these components. Performing creative games had a more significant effect on children’s creativity, movement, and physical coordination than traditional games. Conclusion The children’s physical coordination and motor creativity increase with the practice of creative games. Children’s motor creativity skills, especially mental skills, and their originality and imagination are supported through play. It is better to use creative practice and games to develop children’s mental and motor skills during school physical education hours.

Interactive Book Design for Speech Delay Child Therapy

The ability of speech is influenced by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. If the two factors do not support the development of speech in the child, then the speech ability will be late, which is called speech delay. If speech delay is not addressed immediately, then the impact will continue until the child is an adult. Therefore, interactive book design has a purpose as a media of stimulation that can be used by children and parents. This research will raise topics about the creation and application of interactive visuals in books. The results of this study are expected to be played by parents with children on a regular basis so that the features of this interactive book can be used effectively until the child is interested in learning to recognize and pronounce words or sentences and at the same time helps improve fine motor skills in the child.
 Keywords : speech delay; interactive; book; stimulation