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In today’s business environment there is a set of skills and/or competences that are currently agreed by employers such as teamwork, customer orientation, continuous learning, proactivity, effective way of communication, agility and adaptability, solving complex problems, planning and organizing, and emotional intelligence. The paper presents some methods of thinking used both in the educational environment and in the business environment that can contribute to the creation of skills needed for those who seek to b...

This paper aims to highlight the main approaches to creativity that directly influence the creative processes that occur both in plasticeducation events into creative processes itself; to expose some techniques to stimulate creativity encountered in plasticapproachof great artists, with observation of generaltechniques to develop creativity in which their attempts individual falls, andin the end -some conclusions about the quality of the environment that supports creativity and cognitive processes favoring both th...

When it comes to thinking about fostering creativity in the educational context, one often focuses on the role of the teacher, the support of the principal, parents' willingness to cooperate, material availability, student motivation, and the content that needs to be presented to the students. We rarely think globally, putting the society (and its values) into the focus of the research that directly influences the (non)creation of preconditions for the promotion of creativity. The democracy of society is reflected...

The philosophy of mind concerns much about how novelty occurs in the world. The very recent progress in this field inspired by quantum mechanics indicates that symmetry restoration occurs in the mind at the moment when new creative thought arises. Symmetry restoration denotes the moment when one’s cognition leaves ordinary internalized mental schemes such as conceptual categories, heuristics, subjective theories, conventional thinking, or expectations. At this moment, fundamentally new, original thought may arise....

Creative competencies of teacher constitute the area explored by educators for many years. Conception of teacher as reflective practitioner is also the important direction for training and supporting the teachers in their profession. The essential role plays here the feature of reflectiveness understood as self-knowledge, meta-cognition and thinking over different contexts of reality for which the genesis is uncertainty, feeling of ambiguity and doubts. As for creative development the significant features seem to ...

This article deals with methodological issues related to the use of psychometric and non-psychometric approaches to the study of the core factors in the structure of giftedness (intellect, creativity, motivation). Based on the analysis of the results of existing foreign and national scientific research in this area, the main achievements and limitations of each approach are outlined. The methodology of the pilot research to identify the potentially gifted children among 473 adolescents and senior school students o...

Purpose: Creativity constitutes a source of formation of internal innovation in companies executing scientific and research projects. Creativity and innovation constitute an integration of various fields and perspectives of perceiving change. The effect of synergy of team work can bring more benefits than searching for innovation outwards. The key questions made in the paper are as follows: is there a dependency between creativity and the source of formation of innovation in enterprises? What are the sources of cr...

The involvement of the creativity and the cultural values which are specific to the ethnicities living in the region of Oltenia, Romania, in the local economic development of the rural communities of Romania, regardless of the administrative unit they belong to, have faced, in the last years, issues of economic nature. The study of vines which comes in support of the remedy of this situation by searching solutions springing from the traditional culture and creativity of the ethnic communities. Starting from this i...