PO - Creative problem solving

General data

Course ID:	2300-MS1-PO-TRP
Erasmus code / ISCED:	05.001 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0110) Education, not further defined The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	PO - Creative problem solving
Name in Polish:	PO - Twórcze rozwiązywanie problemów
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Education
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Prerequisites (description):	The workshop is designed for the first year of supporting studies.
Short description:	The aim of the workshop is to acquire and develop skills in creative problem solving. The classes will help increase the efficiency in terms of social interaction and to develop intellectual traits associated with divergent thinking, such as fluency, flexibility and originality.
Full description:	Training includes: the creative thinking (abstraction, making associations, deductive and inductive reasoning, thinking metaphorically, transformations), decision-making and the use of various techniques to the process of solving problems. In addition, each class will begin with a short lecture concerning the following topics: • the basic terms of the theory of problem-solving and decision-making (task, problem, problematic situation, the solution of the problem, the situation and problem of decision-making, decision-maker, the decision acceptable and optimal evaluation criteria decision); • typologies and stages of problem solving; • barriers and help factors in problem-solving; • selected theories of creativity and creative problem solving; • criteria for decision-making under uncertainty and decision heuristics; • the effect of border and other decision-making factors.
Bibliography:	Basic literature: • Nęcka E., Orzechowski J., Słabosz Aleksandra, Szymura B., Trening twórczości, Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne 2005; • Nęcka E., Orzechowski J., Szymura B., Psychologia Poznawcza, PWN i Wydawnictwo SWPS, 2006. Further reading: • Bono E., Sześć myślowych kapeluszy, Helion 2008; • Ernst G.W., Newell A., GPS: a case study in generality and problem solving, Academic Press, 1969; • Franken R.E., Psychologia motywacji, wyd. GWP, Gdańsk 2005; • Góralski A., Twórcze rozwiązywanie zadań, PWN, Warszawa 1980; • Marciszewski W., Poradnik dla niezdecydowanych, Ossolineum, Wrocław 1974; • Mądrzycki T., Osobowość jako system tworzący i realizujący plany, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2002;
Learning outcomes:	Knowledge and understanding, student: • explains the basic concepts of the theory of problem-solving, creative thinking and decision-making; • lists the steps, obstacles and help factors in problem-solving; • discusses the importance of stylistic factors and bounded rationality in decision making. Skills, student: • diagnoses the cause of the problem; • properly identifies and defines the problem; • applies creative problem solving techniques adequately to the existing situation. Attitudes, student: • is committed to the development of intellectual traits associated with divergent thinking; • voluntary acts of the principles and techniques associated with creative problem solving.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	presence control, final exam

This course is not currently offered.

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