Divergent Thinking Examples

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Divergent thinking is an important component of many conceptions of creaitivity. Divergent thinking is the ablity to propose many differnt ideas or answers. Mr. Stepien encoruages his students to ask and answer many questions in regards to this praticular problem. An example of this is when he asked the students to start to imagine that they are in a barn and as they start their daily routine they hear a sound. The sound is two runaway slaves emerging from the crates. The farmers are then faced with the question wheather to turn the slaves in or help them runaway to the underground railroad. This is an example of divergent thinking because the students have the ablity to then propose many differnt ideas or answers to this problem that the farmers