Productive Thinking in Place of Problem-Solving?

Abstract

Why and how is the Gestalt theorists’ concept of productive thinking particularly suitable for being applied to the educational question of how student motivation can be encouraged, thus providing an important condition for self-regulated, intrinsically motivated learning?

Keywords

• text comprehension
• problem solving
• intrinsic motivation
• student-centred instruction
• self-regulation
• aloud thinking
• reflection–response