Theory of Creative Thinking

He Kekang is currently an Honorary Professor (tenured professor) at Northeast Normal University and the director of Beijing Normal University’s modern education technology research institute. He has successively won the state education ministry and the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award six times since 1978.He was awarded the title of expert with outstanding contributions by the National Ministry of Personnel in 1992, was named one of the outstanding teachers in Beijing in 1993, ranked among the famous university instructors in Beijing in 2006, and was selected as the national Baogang excellent teacher in 2007.From June 2001 to May 2006, Prof. Kekang was appointed director of the national Education Ministry Educational Technology Professional Teaching Steering Committee. He is currently Director of the National Teacher Education Informatization Experts Committee, Director of the China Educational Technology Association’s Academic Committee, First Vice-Chairman of the Global Chinese Society on Computers in Education (GCSCE), and an Editorial Board member of the internationally respected Journal of Computer Assisted Learning  (JCAL).For many years, Prof. Kekang and his research team have been engaged in the fields of education informatization engineering, primary and secondary school teaching reform experiment and education innovation theory.

• Introduction.- Basic forms of human thought.- Status Quo and existing problems in creative thinking research.- A model of creative thinking: the mental model of DC.- Theoretical basis of creative thinking - the DC model.- Cultivation of creative thinking.