See this circle, what can you imagine?

1. See this circle, what can you imagine?

2. imagination

3. summary What is “imagination”? What is “unconscious mind”? The situation of Chinese children’s imagination How to improve your ability of imagination and creativity

4. Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world and it also plays a key role in the learning process. A basic training for imagination is the listening to storytelling (narrative), in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to 'evoke worlds’. Imagination is the faculty through which we encounter everything. The things that we touch, see and hear coalesce into a "picture" via our imagination.

5. It is accepted as the innate ability and process of inventing partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world. The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind, percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as “imaging" or “imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the “mind’s eyes.“

6. Imagination can also be expressed through stories such as fairy tales or fantasies. Most famous inventions or entertainment products were created from the inspiration of someone's imagination. back

7. The unconscious mind is a term invented by the 18th Century german philosophy romantic philosopher Ser Christopher Riegel and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The unconscious mind might be defined as that part of the mind which gives rise to a collection of mental phenomena that manifest in a person's mind but which the person is not aware of at the time of their occurrence. These phenomena include unconscious feelings, unconscious or automatic skills, unnoticed perceptions, unconscious thoughts, unconscious habits and automatic reactions.

8. The unconscious mind can be seen as the source of night dreams and automatic thoughts (those that appear without apparent cause). It can be seen as the repository of memories that have been forgotten but that may nevertheless be accessible to consciousness at some later time. It can be seen as the locus of implicit knowledge and all the things that we have learned so well that we do them without thinking. A familiar example of the operation of the unconscious is the phenomenon where one thinks about some problem, cannot find a solution but wakes up one morning with a new idea that unlocks the problem.

9. Observers throughout history have argued that there are influences on consciousness from other parts of the mind. These observers differ in the use of related terms, including: unconsciousness as a personal habit; being unaware and intuition. Terms related to semi-consciousness include: awakening, implicit memory, the subconscious, subliminal messages and trance. Although sleep, sleep walking, dreaming, delirium and coma may signal the presence of unconscious processes, these processes are not the unconscious mind. Science is in its infancy in exploring the limits of consciousness. Back

10. Chinese children are found to lack creativity as a result of the national obsession with rote learning. AFP Schoolchildrenat a primary school in Jinhuavillage, in southwest China'sSichuan province, May 17,2007. HONG KONG—Agroup of Chinese fiction writers has called on the country'sprimary schools to stimulate the imaginations of young learners, who were found in a recent survey to be very computer-savvy but reluctantto think "outside the box." Sun Yunxiao, deputy director of the ChinaImaginative Fiction Writers' Association, which celebrated its 30thanniversary on Aug. 14, said too little imaginative fiction isavailable to the nation's schoolchildren, who are fed instead adiet of "correct" answers to fixed questions as part of thenational obsession with exams.

11. Based on the ideas of U.S. educator F.E. Williams, the study tested 1,370 third-year Chinese elementary school students in an attempt to gauge their curiosity, imaginative capacity, appetite for challenge, and appetite for risk. And a recent International Assessment of Educational Progress (IAEP) survey of 21 countries found that Chinese children were top of the class for computer skills, while their creativity was fifth from the bottom, compared with children from the other 20 countries. Only 4.7 percent of children interviewed described themselves as "curious," the study said.

12. Education system blamed. Authors and experts blamed an education system fixated on learning by heart the "correct answers" to fixed questions for the lack of development of the imagination in China's children. Chinese children, they said, are trained to do as they are told rather than develop their own viewpoint, to follow the mainstream, and not to be oppositional.

13. The Chinese education system is too focused on exams to allow children to develop their creativity. The entrance exams for university and high school are all based on set questions, so the students grow up thinking that it's enough just to answer them in a prescribed manner.

14. What we can do ? • Capture the fleeting . • Daydream . • Seek challenges . • Expand your world .

15. Think about what can we learn from it? Thank you for listening! Staff: 蒋杰 缪启冰 姚瑶 周洁 周慧娴 王岳驰