Failure as an active agent in the development of creative and inventive mindsets
Leigh B. Estabrooks, Stephanie Couch · Thinking Skills and Creativity · 2018
• Failure is a part of the inventing process versus a negative outcome. • Students prefer high points and low points to the use of the term failure . • Notion of creative failure while inventing extended to students’ future endeavors. • Ways of thinking of creative failure validated students’ development as inventors. • An ethnographic lens revealed failure as an active agent in learning.