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Cromwell, Ronald R. – 1992
This document summarizes a study attempting to understand the critical skill of creative visioning. In the study, 20 people who were involved in creativity or creative visioning were interviewed for 1.5-4 hours. Seven central themes emerged from the interviews: (1) the meaning of creative visioning; (2) trusting; (3) imagination; (4) connections;…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creativity
Amabile, Teresa M. – 1989
Defining creativity as a process that draws upon talents, education, skills, thinking and working styles, and inherent intelligence, and pinpointing motivation as the single most important ingredient in the creativity recipe, this book provides dozens of concrete, hands-on exercises and techniques that can help a parent or teacher keep creativity…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression
Rabson, Barbara Burchuk, Ed.; Warshaw, Renata Karlin, Ed. – 1980
The book describes Learning to Read through the Arts (LTRTA), a curriculum combining art activities with writing and reading in small group workshops. The methodology of LTRTA has been applied and modified to work with different groups of students: perceptually impaired, reading disabled, and gifted students. Workshops are offered in mixed media,…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression
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Campbell, Patricia Shehan – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1989
Describes the rise of musical notation in the West, showing the relationship between that development and the origin of music literacy in China. Suggests that the balance of oral and literate means of music learning may foster creative expression in performance. Encourages the study and practice of orality in the training of young musicians. (LS)
Descriptors: Chinese Culture, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creativity
Watson, Jerry J. – 1985
Literary gaps were identified by Wolfgang Iser in 1974 as "vacant pages" that invite the reader to reflect and enter into the text thereby motivating students to experience the text as reality. Arthur Applebee, in 1979, identified three categories to distinguish children's types of interaction with stories: (1) the complexity of literary…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Elementary Education
Sternberg, Robert J.; Williams, Wendy M. – 1996
The 25 strategies described in this book can be used to develop personal creativity, student creativity, and creativity in colleagues and staff members. The strategies are based on investment theory, a psychological theory of creativity, but any one strategy is consistent with many other theories. The investment theory of creativity asserts that…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression
Burr, Constance – Humanities, 1996
Profiles Sherry Stidolph and her ongoing efforts to bring Shakespeare to children. Stidolph uses her knowledge of child development to decide which plays to choose and which elements to emphasize. Includes drawings by the children illustrating scenes from the plays. (MJP)
Descriptors: Authors, Child Development, Childrens Art, Cognitive Development
Monroe, Suzanne S. – 1993
Visual thinking has been neglected with the increasing emphasis on verbal and analytical skills. There is a need to provide balance in curriculum content and instructional evaluation related to visual imagery skills. In order to draw upon students' diverse talents and thinking capacities, educators must honor and respect alternative thinking and…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Artists, Built Environment, Children
Koch, Norman E. – 1986
Stressing language development as the prime component of all learning, this resource book presents suggestions to teachers to aid them in developing children's descriptive language. Basic to the described activities is the concept that vocabulary development is essentially concept development, requires a variety of experiences, and results from…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Choral Speaking, Classroom Techniques, Creative Development
Lee, Ronald T., Ed. – 1988
One of eight guides in the Arts and Learning series, this guide, which was originally developed through the arts in education program of Homer Central School, New York, contains 25 classroom strategies (prototype units or prototype instructional strategies) that can be used by teachers to infuse the arts into their teaching of language…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Class Activities, Community Resources, Creative Development
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 2003
This document presents curriculum guidelines intended for use as a recommended curriculum for children attending early childhood programs in Oklahoma. The introductory section describes critical characteristics of quality early childhood programs, noting that early childhood programs should be appropriate for the age, developmental level, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Behavior Standards, Child Health, Child Safety