2020 Volume 71 Issue 9 Pages 589-599
In this paper, I have confirmed how thinking creatively is involved in “cultivating the qualities and abilities for imagining and creating a way of life,” which constitutes a goal of the new government curriculum guidelines for Family Studies. In doing so, I have revealed the following:
1. This is consistent with the task of devising “abilities and attitudes for trying to improve one's way of life in the face of challenges,” which Family Studies seeks to cultivate under the current curriculum guidelines. In other words, the task of devising creative solutions may be understood as a quality and ability comparable with the attitude and ability of trying to improve one's way of life in the face of challenges.
2. Activities that involve thinking creatively constitute learning activities that are involved in the cultivation of qualities and abilities for imagining and creating a way of life in that they a) are able to link or associate knowledge and skills with existing knowledge and life experience, and b) are applied to scenarios and conditions and are linked with goals and values for solving problems.
3. The quality and ability of thinking creatively in the new curriculum guidelines can be understood as a quality and ability that has comprehensively grasped the various tasks that comprise a way of life. Through a method of apprehension that has abstracted the tasks of a way of life in this way, the quality and ability of thinking creatively is sublimated into a versatile problem-solving ability, thereby constituting a practical response to the Family Studies mindset of “devising ways to live a better life.”
