JALT 2010 - November 19-22 - Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT), an international affiliate of Thailand TESOL, will hold its 36th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning and Educational Materials Exposition from November 19-22 at the Aichi Industry and Labor Center in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, with the theme entitled, "Creativity: Think Outside the Box".
The world is changing. We are preparing people today for jobs and contexts that do not yet exist. The key to thriving, not merely surviving into the future is creativity.
Creativity is the theme for JALT 2010. Creativity was once thought to be inspired by the gods or a gift bestowed upon humans from other worldly sources. In recent years there has been a growing acceptance that creativity is a cluster of skills, attitudes and motivation that comes about via a complex interaction of biological, psychological and social factors. Several types of creativity have been identified (Boden, 2001) including combinational creativity (the skills to produce new ideas by associating or combining old ideas in unfamiliar ways), exploratory creativity (learning rules and then exploring what the rules allow one to do), and transformational creativity (altering, adapting or breaking conceptual rules). Creativity is a habit of mind, which strives to be creative.
The Japan Association for Language Teaching
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