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R. Keith Sawyer
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 97
Citations - 9237
R. Keith Sawyer is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Creativity & Improvisation. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 92 publications receiving 8688 citations. Previous affiliations of R. Keith Sawyer include University of Washington & Washington University in St. Louis.
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Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation
TL;DR: The creative personality is defined through assessment and how to be more creative is suggested to be the way to go.
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Social Emergence: Societies As Complex Systems
TL;DR: Sawyer as mentioned in this paper argues that societies are complex dynamical systems, and that the best way to resolve these debates is by developing the concept of emergence, focusing on multiple levels of analysis - individuals, interactions, and groups - with a dynamic focus on how social group phenomena emerge from communication processes among individual members.
Creative Teaching: Collaborative Discussion as Disciplined Improvisation
TL;DR: Teaching has often been thought of as a creative performance as mentioned in this paper, and it has become associated instead with contemporary reform efforts toward scripted instruction that deny the creativity of teachers, which is opposed to constructivist, inquiry-based, and dialogic teaching methods that emphasize classroom collaboration.
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Creative Teaching: Collaborative Discussion as Disciplined Improvisation
TL;DR: Teaching has often been thought of as a creative performance as discussed by the authors, and it has become associated instead with contemporary reform efforts toward scripted instruction that deny the creativity of teachers, which is opposed to constructivist, inquiry-based, and dialogic teaching methods that emphasize classroom collaboration.
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Group genius : the creative power of collaboration
TL;DR: Sawyer as discussed by the authors sheds light on some of the most popular myths about creativity and erects new principles in their place, revealing that creativity is always collaborative-even when you're alone.