EDUCATING TO “LEARN HOW TO THINK”

This thematic line invites proposals that approach education as a space aimed at fostering critical, creative, and applied thinking. Under the premise of educating to learn how to think, it seeks to bring together research, experiences, and projects that understand education not merely as the transmission of knowledge, but as a process devoted to cultivating reflection, analytical capacity, decision-making, creativity, and responsible judgment.

Contributions related to pedagogies for critical and creative thinking are especially welcome, particularly those that combine problem-solving methodologies, metacognitive practices, and the use of artificial intelligence as cognitive support for learning. Of particular interest are proposals that explore how these approaches can foster more reflective, autonomous, and self-aware forms of learning.

This thematic line also welcomes work on sport as a laboratory for practical intelligence, understood as a privileged educational context for the development of competences related to decision-making, leadership, self-regulation, cooperation, emotional management, and the resolution of complex situations. From this perspective, sport is also conceived as a space for relational, ethical, and strategic formation.

Proposals focused on digital literacy and ethics in artificial intelligence are likewise encouraged, particularly those aimed at promoting a critical understanding of how intelligent systems function, their possibilities and limitations, and the ethical challenges they pose in teaching and learning processes. Special consideration will be given to work that contributes to the informed, responsible, and pedagogically grounded use of these technologies.

In the same vein, proposals on applied interdisciplinarity that integrate education, communication, and creativity in situated learning contexts are invited. This includes projects that connect diverse forms of knowledge around real or plausible situations, such as designing customer service strategies in a restaurant through storytelling techniques, responsible service practices, and data analysis, thereby highlighting the educational value of integrated and contextualised approaches.

Taken together, this thematic line seeks to gather contributions that help conceive education as an intellectual, ethical, and creative practice, aimed at forming individuals capable of understanding complexity, critically interpreting their environment, and acting within it with judgment, responsibility, and imagination.

The Scientific Committee of the Conference will give a prize for the best presentation to the thematic panel on Creativity and Education.