Date of Award
5-2019
Access Control
Open Access
Degree Name
Creative Studies, M.S.
Department
Center for Studies in Creativity
Advisor
Dr. Susan Keller-Mathers
First Reader
Dr. Susan Keller-Mathers
Abstract
This project focused on developing a method for teaching creative thinking tools in ways that enable learning transfer. In the process of defining and identifying stimulants and obstacles for learning transfer, the literature revealed that analogical thinking, a long-standing creative thinking mechanism, is analogous to learning transfer. Many cognitive psychology researchers suggest that since humans can only describe new concepts in terms of things that are already understood, analogical thinking is the basis for all learning. “It is not our senses that limit or liberate us, but our ability to illuminate the unknown by means of analogies to the known. Learning itself depends on analogizing.” (Root-Bernstein & Root-Bernstein, 1999, p.142). A review of the literature on analogical thinking revealed common process steps for using analogical models in teaching. Accelerated learning concepts and components of the Torrance Incubation Model are used to outline a module for teaching analogical thinking. The use of concept maps for the structure mapping step of analogical thinking is recommended.
Recommended Citation
Broome, Perry A., "Improving Transfer of Learning Through Analogical Thinking" (2019). Creativity and Change Leadership Graduate Student Master's Projects. 296.
https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/creativeprojects/296
