The Network Concept of Creativity and Deep Thinking: Applications to Social Opinion Formation and Talent Support

Autor/in	Csermely, Peter
Titel	The Network Concept of Creativity and Deep Thinking: Applications to Social Opinion Formation and Talent Support
Quelle	In: Gifted Child Quarterly, 61 (2017) 3, S.194-201 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1934-9041
DOI	10.1177/0016986217701832
Schlagwörter	Creativity; Thinking Skills; Social Networks; Talent; Community Action; Leadership; Foreign Countries; Case Studies; Democracy; Educational Practices; Network Analysis; Systems Approach; Program Descriptions; Best Practices; Mentors; Student Research; Social Responsibility; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Hungary + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Denkfähigkeit; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Begabung; Hochbegabung; Führung; Führungsposition; Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Demokratie; Bildungspraxis; Netzplantechnik; Systemischer Ansatz; Studentenforschung; Soziale Verantwortung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ungarn
Abstract	Our century has unprecedented new challenges, which need creative solutions and deep thinking. Contemplative, deep thinking became an "endangered species" in our rushing world of Tweets, elevator pitches, and fast decisions. Here, we describe how important aspects of both creativity and deep thinking can be understood as network phenomena of conceptual and social networks. "Creative nodes" occupy highly dynamic, boundary spanning positions in social networks. Creative thinking requires alternating plasticity-dominated and rigidity-dominated mind-sets, which can be helped by dynamically changing social network structures. In the closing section, we present three case studies which demonstrate the applications of the concept in the Hungarian research student movement, the Hungarian Templeton Program, and the Youth Platform of the European Talent Support Network. These examples show how talent support programs can mobilize the power of social networks to enhance creative, deliberative, deep thinking of talented young minds, influencing social opinion, leading to community action, and developing charismatic leadership skills. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01