Cultural Influence: The Creative Thinking Difference with Study in the Australia and the Netherlands
Hendrik Wang
Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
INTRODUCTION:
Many scholars has been noted that the relationship between studying abroad and creative thinking. According to Brian J. Hurn and Barry Tomalin (2013), there are advantages and disadvantages of study abroad, in particular the advantages of cultural diversity, including increased skills, new ideas and creativity and the disadvantages of pressure on the existing welfare services, housing and education. Moreover, Christine s. Lee stated that creative thinking as a possible cognitive benefit gained from studying abroad (2012). But why creative thinking has so strong relationship
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It can be seem from the results in Chart 1 that international students who studying in Netherlands has a better creative thinking than the international students who studying in the Australia. In comparison to previous research with other studies. Christine stated that students who studied abroad generated more original ideas on both a culture specific and a domain general creativity test compared with students who have not studied abroad (2012). Annie Murphy Paul (2014) claims that the serendipitous creative benefits resulting from multicultural experiences. So why study abroad is one of most important method of creative thinking and why study in Netherlands difference with Australia? According to Christine and David and Tracy (2012), cultural experiences gained from studying abroad is the variable that accounts for increased creative thinking in the cultural domain. Personally, when students studying abroad, the newly things is an important reason of creative thinking. This affects to help students make a better choice of which country more suitable for study and which programme has a better education source for creative thinking. Finally, we hope that investigating relationship between creative thinking and varieties of different ages in future …show more content…
On the Cognitive Benefits of Cultural Experience: Exploring the Relationship between Studying Abroad and Creative Thinking. CHRISTINE & DAVID & TRACY, USA: Author.
Appendices
APPENDIX A
Instruction
The task you are about to take involves three activities. The activities will give you a chance to see how good you are at thinking up new ideas and solving problems. They will call for all of the thinking ability you have. For each of the prompts, list only one idea. You will be given 3 minutes to respond for each prompt. (University of Florida & Georgia Southern University, 2012)
Activity 1: Just suppose you studying in United States of America rather than Netherlands or Australia, can you give me a point about what kind of creative thinking you change?
Activity 2: Each year a great many Chinese tourists go to foreign countries to visit. But now suppose that our country wanted to get many more people from foreign countries to come to Chinese during their vacations. What steps can you suggest that would get many more foreign people to come to this country as tourists? (University of Florida & Georgia Southern University,
We are given assignments that challenge us to think innovatively. OLG has taught me to harness my imagination and turn it in to something creative and concrete. I will use my creativity to solve problems in a unique
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-This is because culture is an important part of a child’s identity therefore enabling children to feel a healthy sense of who they are in relation to their culture. If you have understanding and respect for their culture you can help promote their beliefs and attitudes towards themselves in accepting their own culture as ok, respecting their culture and experiencing it as making a positive contribution to our community (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, 2010, p. 21). -it will assist in building strong partnerships with families based on trust where they feel they belong and contribute to the early childhood community and beyond too- this will empower them in their parenting and help them feel at ease with the type
In the essay, “Don't you think It's Time to Start Thinking?” by Northrop Frye, published in the Toronto Star in 1986, tells how Northrop Frye was concerned about how often students are expressing their ideas without articulate them. And for this reason, the author feels that they do not have any sense of language as a structure. At the same time it provide information about how students and people in general should start thinking. When I read the title of this essay, I thought that will be just about the way that students were thinking but not critically.
The article, “ Identifying Thinking Skills for Instruction in Your Classroom,” written by Deborah E. Burns, addresses and explains the taxonomy of Thinking Skills by focusing on the four major thinking skill categories, including: Analytical Reasoning Skills, Critical Thinking Skills, Organizational Thinking Skills, and Creative Thinking Skills. In the article, Burns explains the purpose of the taxonomy was to identify, “thinking skills that were most frequently addressed in the professional literature and within the various thinking skills programs and materials” (Burns D.E., 1993). Burns uses the article to provide strategies and examples in order for educators to successfully implement the taxonomy and thinking skills in different classroom settings. The article provides multiple outlets to provide the stimulus needed to exercise the Thinking Skills highlighted in the article.
I. Introduction A. Attention Gainer: How many of you are interested in traveling abroad? For those who raised their hand, have you ever considered traveling to Australia? B. Reason to Listen: Whether you have thought about it or not, there are many interesting aspects of the Australian culture. You may listen to what we have to say about the unique culture and consider it as an ideal destination if you do end up studying abroad!
The DRC is touches the Central African Republic, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Angola. Because the DRC is surrounded by over five countries it is a prime target of emigration. Emigration is not bad, but the DRC is filled with different ethnics and cultural influences. For, instance, since culture is learned a lot of different influences go into the DRC culture. For example, the Rwanda genocide in the late 1990s thousands of thousands of individuals from the Hutu tribe fled to the DRC bringing the language of Rwanda-Rundi; as a result of the genocide Rwanda-Rundi is “the 5th most common language in the [DRC]” (“Where on earth do they”, n.d.).
Creativity is an important skill that everyone should use continuously. In the short story, The Cat in the Hat, it shows two kids who are home alone and don't have the creativity to think of something to do, until the Cat in the Hat shows up and presents his creative thoughts on having fun. In the article, "Why Nurturing Creativity in Kids is so Important", explains to us about how creativity is needed in everyday life and why everyone should be encouraged to use it. The text’s The Cat in the Hat and "Why Nurturing Creativity in Kids is so Important", prove that in order for a person to be creative minded, creative thinking must be encouraged.
The process of interacting between different companies, people, and the government of neighboring nations is known as globalization, an idea introduced by Anthony Appiah in his article featured in the New York Times Magazine. Globalization is primarily driven by international trade and investments that are aided by information and technology. Does the interaction between companies affect culture? Yes. But, how?
Ken Robinson is a well-known specialist in the field of creativity, innovation and human resources. These impressions enabled him to deepen his main ideas in this book about creativity. He uses many real cases and data to support his ideas and allows this book to be alive and updated. He believes that sometimes education cannot help us show creativity, even destroy our creativity. In addition, to achieve the creative potential of people, it is necessary to improve not only the education system but also organizations must create effective conditions for the development of their own activities and creativity in order to survive in complex competition.
Once he aforementioned that creative thinking is connecting issue ,his suggests that that the persons with broad set of life experiences will see the items that others could also be miss .He cosmopolitan to some countries as a result of he need to attach ideas from completely different
Meta-analytic findings propose that the correlation between creative potential and intelligence generally is around r = .20 (Kim, 2005).The concept that high intellectual capacity is an important condition for high creativity is known as the “threshold hypothesis”. According to this hypothesis the relationship between intelligence and creativity is U-shaped .Therefore the main idea concerning the threshold hypothesis is that high creativity requires high or at least above-average intelligence.
Education and creativity have several benefits, and their fundamental for life. In conclusion, the benefits of creativity are numerous. Raising students 's self esteem is a major part of teaching. When being creative student and teenager are neither right or wrong, many lessons have various outcomes depending on the culture and experiences of the teengaers in the class.
In recent decades, urban cities turned to become an attractive place for people from Different cultures to live in. This movement from different cultures to urban areas caused a significant change and development to urban cities and made it an extrovert area for different backgrounds. Cross (1989) defined culture as “ an integrated pattern of Human behavior that includes thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of a racial, ethnic, religious, or social group”(p.7). Nowadays, we are living and socializing with different cultures and backgrounds in urban areas, which lead to a significant change in our life. I believe that living in a cultural diversity city make us more extrovert and creative
Further, students who study abroad think the experience is beneficial for their career path and success in the future [e.g., Dwyer, 2008; Orahood, Kruze, & Pearson, 2008]. They also become more responsible. However, there are various student prefer to study in Kuwait by reason of it is their country and they don’t aspire to leave their families and travel to study abroad. Also, employers report that they believe students who study abroad have strong interpersonal skills, a significant qualification for a potential job candidate [Doorbar, 2003]. Therefore, experience, knowledge and responsibility are three logical reasons why studying abroad is higher quality than studying in Kuwait.