Showing results for "ACTION" in Developmental Psychology

In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas.

Ron Ritchhart's new book, Cultures of Thinking in Action, takes the next step in helping listeners not only understand how a culture of thinking looks and feels, but also how to create it for themselves and their learners. Arguing that no set of practices or techniques alone is sufficient to create a culture of thinking in and of itself, Ritchhart explores the underlying beliefs that motivate the creation of cultures of thinking, presenting key mindsets every educator and leader needs to embrace.

One of the things this book will teach you is that there is no single path to creativity. You have something in common with Einstein, Michelangelo, Steve Jobs, Stephen Spielberg, and any famous thinker, inventor, or artist that ever lived. Not everyone can be an Einstein, a Michelangelo, a Jobs, or a Spielberg, but tapping into that innate creativity is something everyone can do.