A Justification to Paint Cockatoos
Nestorova, Elena (2020)
Nestorova, Elena
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020122129788
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020122129788
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This research focuses on finding and analyzing the different effects which critical thinking has on creativity in comparison to self-criticism. My main research question is how does mere criticism differ from critical thinking? The reason I ask this question is the simple yet profound realization that I have all my life confused them with one another, which has harmed my creativity. The research method I have chosen to use is an autobiographical case study, which involves psychoanalytical elements. It is built on the Hermeneutic circle model and I have used self-invented analogies and metaphors as tools to clarify and concretize my internal, abstract phenomena.
Tuukka Tomperi, a senior researcher of Tampere University’s Faculty of Education and Culture discusses in his publication the reasons why critical thinking is so commonly equated with or misinterpreted as any type of skillful thinking (Tomperi 2017). His thoughts and ideas are a continuation of long history of philosophers and scientists, who have dealt thoroughly with similar questions. The books and publications of Matthew Lipman, John Dewey and Dr. Peter A. Facione, who conducted the Consensus Statement Regarding Critical Thinking and the Ideal Critical Thinker (Facione 1989), have played a key role in my search for answers and solutions to my research problem. I have related my experiences to their thoughts and applied their theories in order to change my way thinking. As a result of this process I have succeeded to deepen my understanding towards the meaning of critical thinking, which in turn has led me to achieve emancipation form the factors which I find harmful for my creativity. Analytical thinking, reasoning and decision making are undeniably intertwined with the informative processes provided by intuition (Raami 2015). Together they create a complex entity that is in constant transformation.
Tuukka Tomperi, a senior researcher of Tampere University’s Faculty of Education and Culture discusses in his publication the reasons why critical thinking is so commonly equated with or misinterpreted as any type of skillful thinking (Tomperi 2017). His thoughts and ideas are a continuation of long history of philosophers and scientists, who have dealt thoroughly with similar questions. The books and publications of Matthew Lipman, John Dewey and Dr. Peter A. Facione, who conducted the Consensus Statement Regarding Critical Thinking and the Ideal Critical Thinker (Facione 1989), have played a key role in my search for answers and solutions to my research problem. I have related my experiences to their thoughts and applied their theories in order to change my way thinking. As a result of this process I have succeeded to deepen my understanding towards the meaning of critical thinking, which in turn has led me to achieve emancipation form the factors which I find harmful for my creativity. Analytical thinking, reasoning and decision making are undeniably intertwined with the informative processes provided by intuition (Raami 2015). Together they create a complex entity that is in constant transformation.