Creativity as a Methodology and Multiculturalism as an Attitude in Social Sciences Learning and Teaching

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Ege A.

International Journal of Learning Teaching, cilt.5, ss.2-12, 2013 (Hakemli Dergi)

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This paper studies the implications of positivism in social sciences and proposes a relativist, postmodern epistemology of the particularistic stand in acquiring and building knowledge as it regards the treatment of cultures. The analysis of civilizations in relation to their creative potentials supports on the other hand the emphasis on a plural notion of civilizations and/or cultures within their singular historical interpretations. The paper proceeds from there to the basic traits of creativity, taken rather as a methodology and demonstrates how creative thinking in teaching and learning of social sciences, become two interwoven processes, which necessitates by implication the acknowledgement of minor cultures and therefore multiculturalism, designating an attitude, in the sense of “education” in general.