Divergent Thinking Classroom -- Senior High School Chinese (Upper) (Fifth Revised Edition)

Author: Xi Yang (Main Editor) / Sun Jizhan (Sub-editor) / Zi Li et al. (Contributors)
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: Divergent thinking, also known as divergent thinking, is a multi-directional way of thinking. Figuratively speaking, it starts from a single point of knowledge and sends out a ray into the knowledge network space, forming connections between two or more points of knowledge. It achieves the effect of "one input, 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 effect of "learning from one example to understand many."
The distinguishing 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 this function. The "foundation" refers to the core knowledge of each subject, or the basic key points of each knowledge unit. These key points are the foundation for students' understanding and application of knowledge, their. The "peak" refers to the extension, enhancement, and refinement of basic knowledge. Supplementary books should be based on the textbook but also surpass it. If "supporting the foundation" is the basic function of supplementary books, then "elevating the peak" is their soul, the source of their 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.
Introducing divergent thinking into the entire process 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 points, and difficult points to analyze the knowledge content and relationships within the unit, revealing thinking patterns and highlighting problem-solving techniques to achieve comprehensive understanding.
- Divergent Thinking Application selects typical examples, using multi-angle, 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 multi-solution creativity.
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 "winning through quality," and teachers' classroom explanations should be "few but precise." 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, point out methods and techniques, provide updated information, and improve their exam-taking skills.
This book opens up an extraordinary learning world for you. May you draw nourishment from this wonderful world and successfully knock on the door of a top university in the future.
Divergent thinking, also known as divergent thinking, moves from one point along multiple directions to reach a thinking goal. Diagrammatically, it is like a ray emitted from a point toward the knowledge network space, forming connections with two or more points of knowledge. It includes horizontal thinking, reverse thinking, and multi-directional thinking. Divergent thinking is characterized by multi-directionality, flexibility, fluency, and uniqueness, focusing on multiple approaches and solutions when thinking about problems and multiple methods when solving them. For the same problem, it expands horizontally, delves deeply in reverse, and adopts exploration, transformation, variation, transfer, construction, deformation, combination, and decomposition techniques to open students' minds, unleash their potential, and enhance their abilities, which is crucial for cultivating creative talents.
This series of books strives to align closely with the entire teaching process, focusing on cultivating students' creative thinking abilities and enhancing the flexibility and expansiveness of their thinking to improve their problem-solving skills. To this end, we closely connect with students' learning realities and comprehensively reflect the questions from recent years' national college entrance exams and provincial/municipal middle school entrance exams. Aligned with the teaching syllabus and current textbooks, it covers from the first to the second year of high school, synchronizing with each chapter and unit. The basic goal is to enable students to use goal management methods, grasp learning priorities and directions, and achieve targeted learning, ensuring that each chapter (or unit) meets the expected learning objectives and outcomes.
Basic Knowledge Guidance provides a concise overview of the intrinsic knowledge system of each chapter (or unit) and offers insightful analysis of key points for middle school and college entrance exams.
Key and Difficult Points Explanation highlights key and difficult points as the main thread for developing divergent thinking.
Divergent Thinking Guidance and Practice is the core structure of this series, divided into two parts:
- Divergent Thinking Analysis starts from key points, focus points, and difficult points to analyze the knowledge content and relationships within the unit, revealing thinking patterns and highlighting problem-solving techniques to achieve comprehensive understanding.
- Divergent Thinking Application selects typical examples, using multi-angle, 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 multi-solution creativity.
Consolidation and Ability Improvement Exercises help students assess their classroom learning outcomes, while parents can use them to evaluate students' mastery of knowledge in each chapter of the textbook.
The following types of divergent thinking are used in this book:
- Type Divergence transforms typical problems into different question types.
- Solution Divergence employs multiple methods for a single problem or a single method for multiple problems.
- Vertical and Horizontal Divergence connects between two or more divergence points or between divergence points and other knowledge points using examples.
- Transformation Divergence maintains the essence of the original proposition while changing its form.
- Combination Divergence combines multiple divergence points to form a divergent thinking approach.
- Transfer Divergence solves new situational problems using information or method transfer.
- Decomposition Divergence breaks down a complex proposition into simpler ones and analyzes and solves them individually.
- Reverse Divergence thinks from the goal to the conditions.
- Creative Divergence overcomes cognitive rigidity and solves problems unconventionally.
- Comprehensive Divergence integrates connections between divergence points across different chapters of the textbook or between one subject and others.
In summary, this series of books progresses from simple to complex, offering in-depth analysis and extensive practice, bringing students' review and exam preparation closer to reality, thereby enhancing their ability to flexibly apply knowledge, improve transfer and adaptability skills, and develop creative thinking abilities.