Dear Organlearners,
Srinath Srinivasa <srinaths@lotus.iitm.ernet.in> writes:
> At, can you provide me with the complete reference for Coggin's book?
> Coggin seems to have identified a very important caveat in technology
> education. Most of us knew it intuitively, but were never able to place
> our hands on it exactly.
Goggin, P. A. 1979 Education for the future: the case ofor radical
change. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Here is a quote from his book:
"Through the power of love ... man can transcend himself through
creative living. ...Much of contemporary violence can be ascribed to
the frustration of the inarticulate." (p 63)
> "It is hard to *teach* innovation. Some people seem to have it and some
> dosen't seem to have it. However, a key aspect to innovation is
> interaction. Innovative ideas seem to emerge from interacting with others
> with different (even conflicting) viewpoints. Hence it is imperative that
> students (even professionals) subject their notions to different
> viewpoints and contexts for implementing sound technologies..."
Srinath, it is hard to teach innovation because we try to understand
creativity in terms of human experiences. Once we free ourselves from
this narcism in the teaching and learning of creativity, immense
progress is possible.
Your comments on "interaction" is an articluation a specific one of
the seven essentialities of creativity, namely "connect-beget". Read
the book by Arthur Koestler (1964) "The act of creation" New York:
Macmillan for a wonderful exposition on your own articulations.
To learn is to create. The individual learn creatively. Luckily, the
individual is not loose ensemble of organs and spiritual realms. A
humane human has already much of these seven essentialities in
operation, physically and spiritually.
However, when we move form individual learning to organisational
learning, it is very easy to set up an organisation as a loose
ensemble rather than a living organism. It happens when we pay little
attention to the seven essentialities of creativity. Then, once we
have this loose ensemble, we wish it to become like a living
organism. This will not happen if we deny the seven essentialities of
creativity - that which gave rise to a loose ensemble rather than a
living organism.
Best wishes
--At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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