Divergent Thinking Classroom: Senior 2 Politics (Third Revision Edition)

Author: Rao Changyuan
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Divergent thinking is characterized by multidirectionality, flexibility, fluency, and uniqueness. It emphasizes multiple approaches and solutions when solving problems. When addressing an issue, it focuses on diverse methods and pathways. For the same problem, it explores different directions, perspectives, levels, horizontal expansions, reverse in-depth analyses, and employs methods such as exploration, transformation, variation, transfer, construction, deformation, combination, and decomposition. This approach opens students' minds, stimulates their potential, and enhances their quality, which is crucial for cultivating creative talents. Divergent thinking, also known as exploratory thinking, is a multidirectional mode of thought. 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 multidirectionality, 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 comprehension, transforms knowledge into intelligence, and truly achieves the mindset of "learning one thing to understand many."
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 necessity of supplementary books lies in their ability to "support the foundation and elevate the peak." 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.
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, analyzing the content and relationships within the knowledge unit. It reveals thinking patterns and highlights problem-solving techniques using divergent thinking methods to achieve comprehensive understanding. Divergent Thinking Application selects typical examples, employing multidirectional, multi-aspect, and multi-level divergent thinking for key problems to cultivate students' abilities in conceptual differentiation, comprehensive summarization, transformation, mental transfer, reverse application, experimental design, written expression, and multiple solutions.
Stripping away the superfluous to focus on quality is the third distinctive feature of this book. In the education of the new century, the arrangement of course content demands "quality over quantity." Classroom teaching by teachers should be concise and focused, and supplementary books should also prioritize quality by stripping away the unnecessary. This allows students to learn better while reducing their workload, which is also the goal of this book. Therefore, the book includes a "Chapter (Unit) Summary" section to help students organize knowledge structures, inspire problem-solving approaches, highlight 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 fascinating realm and successfully knock on the door of a prestigious university in the future.