NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 8 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Muench, Richard; Wieczorek, Oliver; Gerl, Robin – Cogent Education, 2022
Creativity is the driving force of technological innovation and sustainable economic growth in the knowledge society. A central question, therefore, is how education helps to enhance creativity. As East Asian countries occupy the top of performance tests such as the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), it is most important…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Learning Strategies, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
Gube, Maren; Shore, Bruce M. – Online Submission, 2018
From the 1990s until 2017 the High Ability and Inquiry Research Group (HAIR) at McGill University in Montreal, received C$1.3M in research funds from Canadian, Quebec, and US agencies to support its research and graduate training in education and educational psychology. Their research encompassed two principal areas, Inquiry in Education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Objectives, Academic Ability
Gates, Gary J. – Education Canada, 2004
The growing dominance of the creative economy challenges cities and regions to move beyond the impulse toward "big ticket" economic development strategies like stadiums and convention centres and consider increased support for community-level strategies that encourage social and cultural diversity. Vibrant street scenes, eclectic…
Descriptors: Creativity, Economic Development, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Heine, Steven J.; Kitayama, Shinobu; Lehman, Darrin R. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2001
Investigated compensatory self-enhancement in Japanese and Canadian college students who completed and graded the Remote Associations Test under success of failure conditions, then completed a questionnaire containing a compensatory self-enhancement measure. Canadian students discounted negative feedback, though they did not exhibit compensatory…
Descriptors: College Students, Creativity, Cultural Differences, Feedback
Blank, Stanley S.; Parker, Donald J. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1986
Fourteen Native Canadian intermediate students identified as creatively gifted were assigned to experimental or control groups. Pre- and posttests of creative potential indicated significant gains in originality scores of the experimental groups, who received training in fluency, flexibility, and originality through formation of objects and…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creativity
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Courtney, Richard – Youth Theatre Journal, 1988
Examines key issues of creative drama among English-speaking children, Alberta Indians, and Australian aboriginal societies (second article in a series examining children's creativity in different cultures; see CS736752). (MM)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Milgram, Roberta M., Ed.; And Others – 1993
This book provides theoretical and practical information to meet the challenge of individualizing instruction for gifted and talented adolescents of different learning styles and different cultural backgrounds. Part 1 consists of six chapters that present the broad theoretical background of giftedness and learning style. It includes the following…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adolescents, Area Studies, Cognitive Style
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2010
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]
Descriptors: Social Studies, Proverbs, Social Justice, Global Approach