Documenting ‘possibility thinking’: a journey of collaborative enquiry

By P. Burnard, Anna Craft, T. Cremin, B. Duffy, R. Hanson, Jean-Louis Keene, L. Haynes, D. Burns. 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Child-initiated play and professional creativity: enabling four-year-olds' possibility thinking (2012, methodology): “In keeping with earlier studies of PT (eg Burnard et al, 2006, Cremin et al, 2006, Chappell et al 2008), and reflecting the commitment of the University team to democratic reflective practice in the early years (Paige-Smith, Craft and Craft, 2008, 2011a), the three University researchers…”
Question‐posing and question‐responding: the heart of ‘Possibility Thinking’ in the early years (2008, background): “Stage 1 of the research (Burnard et al. 2006; Cremin et al. 2006) focused on teacher thinking (via video-stimulated review of classroom segments) to identify teachers’ view on what constitutes PT. Findings identified a number of distinct but interlinked features of children’s and teachers’…”
The role of supporters in facilitating the use of technologies by adolescents and adults with learning disabilities: a place for positive risk-taking? (2014, background): “Burnard et al. (2006) propose that problem finding and problem-solving involves the posing, in many different ways, of the question ‘What if?’ ‘Possibility thinking’ was developed in the context of mainstream schooling for non-disabled children and the teaching of creative thinking.”
Possibility thinking: culminative studies of an evidence-based concept driving creativity? (2013, background): “In Phase 1 of the earlier PT work, with younger children (Burnard et al. 2006), the characteristics of PT had been characterised in terms of process, outcome and a mix of both, as follows in Figure 4.”
Creative Learning Environments in Education--A Systematic Literature Review. (2013, background): “In their collaborative, video-based study of three early years settings, Burnard et al. (2006) found that young children needed sufﬁcient time for immersion in an activity in order to realise creative outcomes, whilst for Halsey et al. (2006), the most successful NESTA-funded projects for…”
Pedagogy and Possibility Thinking in the Early Years (2006, background): “These include: • Posing questions • Play • Immersion and making connections • Being imaginative1 • Innovation • Risk taking • Self determination (Burnard et al, 2006).”