Synectics is a new term in ELT classes. Here is a presentation I prepared for Erol Bey's lesson for Master Program. Hope u enjoy it.

1. Synectics and Enhancing the Creative Thought By Muzaffer Çetin

3. The twentieth century saw major advances in educational sciences, offering teachers new perspectives into the invisible process of learning. Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky led the way studying cognitive development and the construction of knowledge through qualitative observation and experimentation. Advances in the medical field, including technology to monitor brain activity, provided quantitative explanations to further illuminate the mystery of learning. In order for teachers to apply this wealth of insight to educational practice, they themselves had to be educated. They needed training not just in the concepts but also in effective ways of integrating those concepts into their teaching.

5. THOMAS GRADGRIND. A man of realities. A man of facts and calculations. A man who has the principle that two and two are four, and nothing over.Thomas Gradgrind asks a nerdy student:‘Your definition of a horse.’ ‘ Quadruped. Herbivorous. Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring. Age known by marks in mouth.’

12. Before 1944 most psychologists considered creativity a mystical, subconscious process that science could not measure without disrupting the process itself. Gordon in 1944, however, believed identifying the subconscious processes and bringing them into conscious thought would not disrupt the creative process; in fact, he believed that doing so would enhance it.

28. 2. Allow yourself space to think.