Uncertainty: A Catalyst for Creativity, Learning and Development

Series Foreword.- Part I. Understanding Uncertainty .- 1. Introduction.- 2. Not knowing.- 3. Uncertainty Makes Creativity Possible.- 4. Play, Reflection, and the Quest for Uncertainty.- Part II. Transforming Uncertainty into Creativity .- 5. Beyond tolerating ambiguity: How emotionally intelligent people can channel uncertainty into creativity.- 6. Living with Uncertainty in the Creative Process: A Self-Regulatory Perspective.- 7. The Uncertainty of Creativity: Opening Possibilities and Reducing Restrictions through Mindfulness.- 8. From Uncertainty to Insight: An Autocatalytic Framework.- Part III. Uncertainty and Creativity in Science and Mathematics .- 9. Grasping the Uncertainty of Scientific Phenomena: A Creative, Agentic, and Multimodal Model for Sensemaking.- 10. The relationship of the Five Legs of Creativity Theory and uncertainty in the generation of mathematical creativity.- 11. Engineering uncertainty in the mathematics classroom: Implications for classroom tasks and learning.- Part IV. Uncertainty in Learning and Development .- 12. Do children think Alea Iacta Est?: Developing concepts of uncertainty in causal reasoning.- 13. Getting comfortable with uncertainty: The road to creativity in preschool children.- 14. Developing intellectual character: An educational perspective on how uncertainty-driven curiosity can support learning.- 15. (Un)certain relation between social validation and creators' self-concept.- Part V. Transforming Education in Response to Uncertainty .- 16. Exploring uncertainty by groaning in the groan zone: A pattern for emergent conversation and learning.- 17. Creatively confronting the adjacent possible: Educational leadership and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- 18. Learning in an Uncertain World: Transforming Higher Education for the Anthropocene.