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The 21st century has seen no shortage of historic problems, which has begged the question, How is society preparing today's young people to take on these challenges? There have been a fair number of obscure but promising approaches that warrant testing but do not currently attract the level of attention needed to secure the necessary resources for a proper test. Narrative Thinking and Storytelling for Problem Solving in Science Education is an essential academic publication that focuses on the use of storytelling to respond to the fundamental need to share experiences while also inspiring world-changing solutions through the stimulation of curiosity, imagination, and reflection. Focusing on this widespread, powerful, and multifaceted form of communication, this book centers on the use of storytelling as a narrative and rhetorical technique in scientific knowledge, research, teaching, and learning. Covering topics such as digital storytelling, narrative schema, and mediation, this powerful reference source is ideal for researchers, scientists, instructional designers, communication specialists, and academicians.

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John Thomas Riley is the chief designer for The Big Moon Dig. From 1989-2014, he worked at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center as Contamination Control Engineer on 1) Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 (HST SM-4); 2) Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA). From 1979-1981, he worked at Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory as a System Engineer. The Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory was at the time the third-largest ground based astronomical telescope on Earth. He has a Master’s degree in Engineering Management from George Washington University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston. Luisa dall’Acqua is a senior cognitive scientist. She is an author, reviewer, and editor for several international scientific journals and book editions, and was a committee member for international Workshops/Conferences. Since 1990 she performed teaching activities, training students, teachers in service, headmasters and professionals; and since 2003 she was a member of international projects and research teams (USA, Europe, Asia). After an MSc in Philosophy, Luisa received a Ph.D. in Sociology of Legal Institutions and Policies, and a second Ph.D. in Psychological and Social Sciences. The main field of research is an engineering and social-cognitive approach to the intelligence and problem solving, and in particular to the decision-making process under risk, stress, conflict, and unpredictability, ranging from individual, collective, institutional intelligence applications to computational intelligence. The new risk scenarios, which she is working on, are cyber-intelligence and cyber-criminal profiling. Currently, she is a permanent teacher at the TCO Scientific Lyceum (Italy) and an adjunct professor at the University of Bologna.

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