Supplemental Material for Prosocial Motivation and Creativity in the Arts and Sciences: Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence

‘I could not see any place in science for my creativity or imagination’, was the explanation, of a bright school leaver to the author, of why she had abandoned all study of science. Yet as any scientist knows, the imagination is essential to the immense task of re-creating a shared model of nature from the scale of the cosmos, through biological complexity, to the smallest subatomic structures. Encounters like that one inspired this book, which takes a journey through the creative process in the arts as well as sciences. Visiting great creative people of the past, it also draws on personal accounts of scientists, artists, mathematicians, writers, and musicians today to explore the commonalities and differences in creation. Tom McLeish finds that the ‘Two Cultures’ division between the arts and the sciences is not after all, the best classification of creative processes, for all creation calls on the power of the imagination within the constraints of form. Instead, the three modes of visual, textual, and abstract imagination have woven the stories of the arts and sciences together, but using different tools. As well as panoramic assessments of creativity, calling on ideas from the ancient world, medieval thought, and twentieth-century philosophy and theology, The Poetry and Music of Science illustrates its emerging story by specific close-up explorations of musical (Schumann), literary (James, Woolf, Goethe) mathematical (Wiles), and scientific (Humboldt, Einstein) creation. The book concludes by asking how creativity contributes to what it means to be human.

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Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences: Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age. Jon Klancher.

The Wordsworth Circle ◽

10.1086/twc24044470 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 223-225

Author(s):

Richard C. Sha

Keyword(s):

Cultural Institutions ◽

Arts And Sciences ◽

The Arts

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Ascertaining Consciousness in Identity Formation: Best Medical Practices in Dementia Care

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1876 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 567-567

Author(s):

Angel Duncan

Keyword(s):

Identity Formation ◽

The United States ◽

Dementia Care ◽

Medical Practices ◽

Arts And Sciences ◽

The Arts ◽

Testing Case ◽

Clinical Research Trials ◽

Common Misconceptions

Abstract This session identifies common misconceptions about identity for persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Going beyond diagnostic brain imaging and neurocognitive testing, case studies and research in creativity from around the United States highlights consciousness of persons living with ADRD. Reviewing and discussing artworks is aimed to set dialogue in the question of where memory deposits emerge when engaged in creativity. Through art therapy techniques, this type of self-expression may provide new avenues in treatment for dementia care. Exploring the arts from those with Mild Cognitive Impairment to late stage Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, such as frontotemporal dementia, consciousness seems to remain intact despite neural death. This session aims to discourage poor spending allocations and establishing meaningful care. From clinical research trials to creativity of self-expression, the importance of why the arts and sciences matter are demonstrated as effective modalities that enhance quality of life.

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Joint displays for qualitative-quantitative synthesis in mixed methods reviews

Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences ◽

10.1177/2632084320984374 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 263208432098437

Author(s):

Ahtisham Younas ◽

Shahzad Inayat ◽

Amara Sundus

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Practice Research ◽

Quantitative Evidence ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Quantitative Synthesis ◽

Research Findings ◽

Excellent Method ◽

Levels Of Integration

Mixed methods reviews offer an excellent approach to synthesizing qualitative and quantitative evidence to generate more robust implications for practice, research, and policymaking. There are limited guidance and practical examples concerning the methods for adequately synthesizing qualitative and quantitative research findings in mixed reviews. This paper aims to illustrate the application and use of joint displays for qualitative and quantitative synthesis in mixed methods reviews. We used joint displays to synthesize and integrate qualitative and quantitative research findings in a segregated mixed methods review about male nursing students' challenges and experiences. In total, 36 qualitative, six quantitative, and one mixed-methods study was appraised and synthesized in the review. First, the qualitative and quantitative findings were analyzed and synthesized separately. The synthesized findings were integrated through tabular and visual joint displays at two levels of integration. At the first level, a statistics theme display was developed to compare the synthesized qualitative and quantitative findings and the number of studies from which the findings were generated. At the second level, the synthesized qualitative and quantitative findings supported by each other were integrated to identify confirmed, discordant, and expanded inferences using generalizing theme display. The use of two displays allowed in a robust and comprehensive synthesis of studies. Joint displays could serve as an excellent method for rigorous and transparent synthesis of qualitative and quantitative findings and the generation of adequate and relevant inferences in mixed methods reviews.

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Hooke recommemorated

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1996.0013 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 139-140

Keyword(s):

Social Life ◽

Royal Society ◽

Early Years ◽

Domestic Life ◽

Robert Hooke ◽

Arts And Sciences ◽

Personal Interaction ◽

The Arts ◽

Christ Church ◽

History Of

Richard Nichols, The Diaries of Robert Hooke, The Leonardo of London, 1635-1703 . Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1994, Pp. 185, £15.00. ISBN 0- 86332-930-6. Richard Nichols is a science master turned historian of science who celebrates in this book Robert Hooke’s contributions to the arts and sciences. The appreciation brings together comments from Hooke’s Diaries , and other works, on each of his main enterprises, and on his personal interaction with each of his principal friends and foes. Further references to Hooke and his activities are drawn from Birch’s History of the Royal Society, Aubrey’s Brief Lives , and the Diaries of Evelyn and of Pepys. The first section of the book, ‘Hooke the Man’, covers his early years of education at home in Freshwater, at Westminster school and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he soon joined the group of experimental philosophers who set him up as Curator of the Royal Society and Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, Bishopsgate. Hooke’s domestic life at Gresham College is described - his intimate relationships with a series of housekeepers, including his niece, Grace Hooke, and his social life at the College and in the London coffee houses.

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