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Exploring the conceptual space of LEGO : Teaching and learning the psychology of creativity

@inproceedings{Church2003ExploringTC,
  title={Exploring the conceptual space of LEGO : Teaching and learning the psychology of creativity},
  author={Canterbury Christ Church},
  year={2003}
}
This paper reports on the use of the construction toy LEGO as an effective learning resource for undergraduate classes in the psychology of creativity. Students first attended a short series of lectures on aspects of creativity, including learner characteristics such as motivation and metacognition, and theoretical approaches to problem-finding and problem-solving including the Geneplore model and the metaphor of learning as navigation in a multidimensional conceptual space. This was followed… 
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