Creativity

Creativity is a Form of Play

I adapted the Views of Nature of Science (VNOS) survey, as a way of assessing and encouraging appropriate form of play in the workplace.

Link to survey: Humor & Creativity in Healthcare/Science Survey. 

The survey opens with a history of the 21 Grams Experiment, and encourages the reader to think critically about the data, encouraging this type of curiosity as a form of play that staff may be able to share with others

VNOS (Lederman, 2004) is often an objective of undergraduate science curricula that students develop accurate and sophisticated understandings of the nature of science, and there is a body of work building around evaluating students’ understanding and the effectiveness of curricula in promoting students’ understanding 

A “scientifically literate individual” should be able to understand the following features of the nature of science:

1. Science is “a human endeavor, directed by theory and culture”

2. Science is “reliant on empirical observation”

3. Science is “subject to change”

4. The above aspects of science “should be viewed as interdependent”