Uncertainty: A Catalyst for Creativity, Learning and Development

Ronald A. Beghetto is an internationally recognized expert on creative thought and action in educational settings.  Dr. Beghetto holds the Pinnacle West Presidential Chair and serves as a Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Dr. Beghetto is the Editor for the Journal of Creative Behavior, Co-Editor for Review of Research in Education, Series Co-Editor for Creative Theory and Action in Education (Springer), and has served as a creativity advisor for LEGO Foundation and the Cartoon Network. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (Div. 10, APA), and the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI).  He is the 2018 recipient of the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts and 2008 recipient of Daniel E. Berlyne Award from Div. 10 ofthe American Psychological Association.Garrett J. Jaeger is a Research Fellow at the LEGO Foundation in Billund, Denmark. His research focuses on mapping exploratory behaviors to better understand how play and creativity are linked. He previously studied exploratory play as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz after holding the Thomas Murphy research fellowship at the Center for Childhood Creativity at the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Garrett received the E. Paul Torrance Endowed Student Scholarship while developing psychometrics for the creative process as he earned his PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Georgia.

• Series Foreword.- Part I. Understanding Uncertainty.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Not knowing.- 3. Uncertainty Makes Creativity Possible.- 4. Play, Reflection, and the Quest for Uncertainty.- Part II. Transforming Uncertainty into Creativity.- 5. Beyond tolerating ambiguity: How emotionally intelligent people can channel uncertainty into creativity.- 6. Living with Uncertainty in the Creative Process: A Self-Regulatory Perspective.- 7. The Uncertainty of Creativity: Opening Possibilities and Reducing Restrictions through Mindfulness.- 8. From Uncertainty to Insight: An Autocatalytic Framework.- Part III. Uncertainty and Creativity in Science and Mathematics.- 9. Grasping the Uncertainty of Scientific Phenomena: A Creative, Agentic, and Multimodal Model for Sensemaking.- 10. The relationship of the Five Legs of Creativity Theory and uncertainty in the generation of mathematical creativity.- 11. Engineering uncertainty in the mathematics classroom: Implications for classroom tasks and learning.- Part IV. Uncertainty in Learning and Development.- 12. Do children think Alea Iacta Est?: Developing concepts of uncertainty in causal reasoning.- 13. Getting comfortable with uncertainty: The road to creativity in preschool children.- 14. Developing intellectual character: An educational perspective on how uncertainty-driven curiosity can support learning.- 15. (Un)certain relation between social validation and creators’ self-concept.- Part V. Transforming Education in Response to Uncertainty.- 16. Exploring uncertainty by groaning in the groan zone: A pattern for emergent conversation and learning.- 17. Creatively confronting the adjacent possible: Educational leadership and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- 18. Learning in an Uncertain World: Transforming Higher Education for the Anthropocene.