Exploring New Approaches to Cultivating Innovation Ability Among University Students

Author: Li Caijun
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Cultivating innovative talents is an urgent need in the knowledge economy era and a key focus of quality education. This book applies scientific theories such as learning science, psychology, creativity science, brain science, thinking science, and systems theory as guidance to reveal the mechanisms of the formation and development of university students' innovative abilities. The book argues that: the formation and development of innovative ability is a systematic project, and its development, apart from innate factors, is comprehensively determined by post-natal environmental, educational, and practical factors; the formation and development of innovative ability is the result of the interaction between intellectual and non-intellectual factors. Among them, non-intellectual factors serve as the driving system for the formation and development of innovative ability, while intellectual factors are the key to it; innovation itself is a cognitive activity process, with innovative thinking at its core. Innovative thinking permeates the entire process of university students' innovative activities and plays a leading and decisive role. Its enhancement and development will largely determine the success or failure of cultivating innovative talents among university students. The book proposes new directions for cultivating university students' innovative abilities through the methods and approaches of innovative education. It also includes training and testing tables for innovative ability, which can help readers assess their level of innovative thinking. This book is suitable as a textbook for various types of higher education institutions, adult education colleges, and continuing education colleges. It is also suitable as a reference material for creative invention schools and enterprises to conduct creative education. Additionally, it serves as a practical self-study resource for primary and secondary school teachers, educators, scientists, managers, and creative inventors.