Garrett J Jaeger

Garrett J Jaeger
The LEGO Foundation · Experiences & Facilitation

PhD

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Introduction
My research focuses on mapping exploratory behaviors to better understand links between play and creativity. My work at the LEGO Foundation includes the transformation of paper-and-pencil tests into behavioral measures of what occurs in situ as children are learning through play. These measures are paired with activities and are introduced in numerous geographic contexts; bolstering the need for co-creation to overcome deficit thinking as we introduce our learning through play interventions.
Additional affiliations
January 2019 - present
The LEGO Foundation
Position
  • Research Specialist
September 2018 - December 2019
University of California, Santa Cruz
Position
  • PostDoc Position
July 2015 - August 2018
San Francisco State University
Position
  • Instructor
Education
August 2011 - May 2015
University of Georgia
Field of study
  • Educational Psychology
August 2008 - May 2011
San Francisco State University
Field of study
  • Developmental Psychology
August 2001 - May 2005
Naropa University
Field of study
  • Environmental Leadership

Publications

Publications (14)
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Children have unlimited creative potential: they are curious, playful, imaginative, and open to new experiences. They express their creativity through play, paintings, problem solving, and the mismatched outfits they wear to school. Parents and teachers do not need to teach children to be creative. All children have creative potential if you know w...
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Ideas are meaningful units of thought. In fact, they represent the most useful unit of thought. There is no way to pinpoint some of the dimensions of ideas since they vary so much (e.g., your idea of “a good time” is probably more complex than your idea of “your favorite color”), but this is in fact part of their utility. They can be defined such t...
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We question the existing formal education paradigm and suggest alternative perspectives on curriculum and pedagogy. The current educational system in the United States is a product of the industrial revolution: it values efficiency, scientific management, formal settings, and compartmentalized subjects. This scientific management system approach to...
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This study examines how parents' and children's explanatory talk and exploratory behaviors support children's causal reasoning at a museum in San Jose, CA in 2017. One‐hundred‐nine parent–child dyads (3–6 years; 56 girls, 53 boys; 32 White, 9 Latino/Hispanic, 17 Asian‐American, 17 South Asian, 1 Pacific Islander, 26 mixed ethnicity, 7 unreported) p...
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Purpose Despite the fact that research on creativity and cognition have garnered the attention of researchers and practitioners for decades, there is a lack of valid, reliable, and accessible instruments for enhancing and measuring these critical skills. Leveraging research from The LEGO Foundation and in collaboration with BrainPOP and the Learnin...
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This handbook focuses on the development and nurturance of creativity across the lifespan, from early childhood to adolescence, adulthood, and later life. It answers the question: how can we help individuals turn their creative potential into achievement? Each chapter examines various contexts in which creativity exists, including school, workplace...
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Young children develop causal knowledge through everyday family conversations and activities. Children's museums are an informative setting for studying the social context of causal learning because family members engage together in everyday scientific thinking as they play in museums. In this multisite collaborative project, we investigate childre...
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Educators are obliged to balance new resources with a healthy skepticism of change. This review of technological advances in creativity research highlights methods that scaffold both research and the students who stand to benefit from resultant findings. Educational technology need not lower its role to that of enabler. With proper guidance however...
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The theory of the creative class has proven to be useful but may be slanted towards professional levels of creativity. Additionally, differences between (a) objective measures of regional creativity, including the Creativity Index used by Florida (2012) and (b) creativity as measured by more traditional psychological assessments (that are commonly...
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In a recent study, Bianchi (2014) showed that macroeconomic conditions (i.e. average unemployment rate) during the years of emerging adulthood (ages 18 to 25) are inversely related to adult narcissism. Fletcher (2015) called into question the robustness of the results and Grijalva et al. (2015) presented meta-analytic support for real gender differ...

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