Six colours for inclusion: results of an explorative activity in a simplexity approach

Abstract

[EN] Schools and teachers are called upon, in the age of complexity, to manage a plurality of problems related to the numerous stimuli arising from the personal and environmental influences of students. This implies that a new way of working in the direction of creativity is linked to a different way of using educational elements. This paper presents the results of an exploratory activity, conducted on 657 teachers in training at the University of Salerno, as part of the training activities to support the teaching of pupils with special educational needs. The aim was to investigate whether teachers in training can develop lateral thinking, based on suggestions derived from the studies of de Bono (2015) and, specifically, from his theory "Six Hats for Thinking", highlighting points of agreement with the theory of simplicity proposed by Berthoz ( 2011).