Six colours for inclusion: results of an explorative activity in amsimplexity approach

Schools and teachers are called upon, in the age of complexity, to control a plurality of problems related to the numerous stimuli arising from the personal and environmental influences of students. This implies a new way of working in the direction of creativity, which therefore becomes a teaching tool as well as a human process. This paper presents the results of an exploratory activity, conducted on 657 teachers, as part of the training activities for teaching support to pupils with special educational needs at the University of Salerno. The aim was to investigate whether teachers in training can develop lateral thinking, based on suggestions derived from de Bono's (2015) studies and, specifically, his "Six Hats for Thinking" theory, highlighting points of agreement with the simplexity theory proposed by Berthoz (2011). This represents a different way of using colour to think, act and include.