This researcher conceptualized ‘creativity’ as ‘seeing familiar things unfamiliarly’ and reflected on a
social studies lesson, , which the researcher had constructed and performed, on basis
of perspective on ‘seeing familiar things unfamiliarly.’ The present researcher tried to have students learn
various perspectives, dimensions, and criteria. But the researcher didn’t embody the intention and got to
realize several conditions and environments in which ‘seeing unfamiliarly’ can be fostered. First, if we will
make students capable of seeing the familiar unfamiliarly, we have to identify students’ ‘seeing familiarly’
concretely. Second, we should continue to see a process itself of ‘seeing unfamiliarly’ unfamiliarly. Third,
‘seeing unfamiliarly’ is a try of going beyond an established boundaries toward a wider context. Students
should be able to understand society and world and grapple with how to live, while they study social
studies. At this point, They need to live in environments which they can be encouraged to imagine
alternative boundaries: new context, new ways of seeing, interpreting, and valuing. That can lead naturally
to their learning and internalization of ‘diversity’ and ‘difference’ in life. That is why ‘seeing unfamiliarly’
is required in social studies.