Divergent Thinking Classroom -- Senior 2 Politics ((Revised Edition))

Author: Xi Yang
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Divergent thinking is characterized by multi-directionality, flexibility, fluency, and uniqueness. It emphasizes multiple approaches and solutions when thinking about problems and multiple methods when solving them. For the same problem, it explores different directions, aspects, levels, horizontal expansions, reverse in-depth analyses, and employs methods such as exploration, transformation, variation, transfer, construction, deformation, combination, and decomposition. This helps open students' minds, unleash their potential, and enhance their qualities, which is crucial for cultivating creative talents. Divergent thinking, also known as exploratory thinking, is a multi-directional way of thinking. Metaphorically speaking, it starts from a single point of knowledge and sends out a ray into the knowledge network space, forming connections with two or more points of knowledge. It achieves the effect of "one input leading to multiple outputs," demonstrating strong multi-directionality, flexibility, and creativity. When applied to learning, divergent thinking can bridge the gap between known and unknown, creating new ideas and problem-solving methods. It enhances understanding, transforms knowledge into intelligence, and truly achieves the thinking effect of "gaining one to understand many" and "generalizing from one example to others."
A distinctive feature of this book compared to other similar books is its full utilization of the supplementary book's function of "supporting the foundation and elevating the peak." The existence of supplementary books is justified by their function of "supporting the foundation and elevating the peak." The "foundation" refers to the core knowledge of each subject, or the basic key points of each unit. These basic points are the foundation for students' understanding and application of knowledge, their. The "peak" refers to the extension, enhancement, and refinement of the basic knowledge. Supplementary books should be based on the textbook but also surpass it. If "supporting the foundation" is the basic function of a supplementary book, then "elevating the peak" is its soul, the source of its vitality. Based on this understanding of supplementary books, this book reflects its targeting and innovation from four aspects: high standards, new perspectives, broad vision, and extensive thinking.
Integrating divergent thinking into all aspects of learning and practice, the book is structured around "Divergent Thinking Guidance and Practice," which is another distinctive feature. In practical application, it is divided into two parts: "Divergent Thinking Analysis" starts from key points, focus areas, and difficulties, analyzes the content and relationships of the knowledge unit, and reveals thinking patterns and problem-solving techniques using divergent thinking methods to achieve comprehensive understanding. "Divergent Thinking Application" selects typical examples, using multi-directional, multi-aspect, and multi-level divergent thinking for key problems to cultivate students' abilities in conceptual differentiation, comprehensive summarization, transformation, thinking transfer, reverse application, experimental design, writing expression, and multiple solutions.
Stripping away the unnecessary and focusing on quality is the third distinctive feature of this book. In the education of the new century, the arrangement of course content requires "prioritizing quality," and teachers' classroom explanations should be "concise and effective." Supplementary books should also strip away the unnecessary and focus on quality, allowing students to learn better while reducing their workload. This is also the goal of this book. Therefore, it includes a "Chapter (Unit) Summary" section to help students organize knowledge structures, inspire problem-solving ideas, highlight methods and techniques, provide updated information, and improve their exam-taking skills.
This book opens up a wondrous world of learning for you. May you draw nourishment from this exciting world and successfully knock on the door of a prestigious university in the future.