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  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Science

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic and climate crises highlight the urgent need for advanced problem-solving and interdisciplinary collaboration skills.
  • Current global challenges necessitate enhanced creative and collaborative thinking abilities to mitigate potential social, economic, and cultural catastrophes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize research on creative collaboration across disciplines.
  • To outline a framework for scaffolding collaborative thinking in educational settings.
  • To equip students with creative responses to complex problems.

Main Methods:

  • Literature synthesis on creative collaboration.
  • Development of a framework to foster metacognitive understanding and epistemic awareness.
  • Emphasis on epistemic shifting, perspective-taking, and cross-disciplinary communication.

Main Results:

  • The proposed framework enhances students' metacognitive understanding and epistemic awareness.
  • Students develop epistemic humility, empathy, and control through structured collaboration.
  • The framework facilitates meaningful perspective-taking and cross-disciplinary communication.

Conclusions:

  • Further research is needed on the benefits of interdisciplinary metacognition in diverse learning contexts.
  • Educational approaches should move beyond adversarial critical thinking towards inclusive collaboration and emergent creativity.
  • Developing creative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary skills is essential for future problem-solving.