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Annarella, Lorie A. – 1999
Eliciting creativity in every student in the classroom can be a realistic goal for classroom teachers. The teaching of creativity embraces form and structure as well as freedom of thought and expression. It is very appropriate to provide the student with an imaginative and creative impetus with which he/she cannot only create or establish the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Development, Creative Dramatics, Creativity

Nowak-Fabrykowski, Krystyna – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1992
This paper discusses links among the process of creativity, symbolization, and learning. The importance of symbolization in thinking, in school learning, in child development, and in the behavior of creative learners is stressed. (DB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Processes, Creative Development

Slabbert, Johannes A. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1994
This discussion of creativity in its educational context first considers the role of the creative product, process, personality, and environment. A proposal for teaching student teachers to teach more creatively is offered. The approach stresses development of originality, fluency, abstraction, elaboration, and openness. (DB)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Teaching, Creativity, Higher Education
Gass, Michael – 1982
Points on teaching students to be creative, practical techniques used to help creativity flourish, and the role of creativity in learning in the outdoor classroom are explored. Suggestions for encouraging creativity in the outdoors to occur are: to make use of the ample assortment of ways the outdoor environment can stimulate each student; to…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning

Renzulli, Joseph S. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1992
This article presents a general theory for developing creative productivity in young learners by examining interactions among: the learner (abilities, interests, learning styles); the curriculum (content and methodology of a discipline, structure of a discipline, appeal to the imagination); and the teacher (knowledge of the discipline,…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education

Wernick, Walter – Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception, 1979
The educational system is an invention by people to control the life force of conative energy. It teaches individuals to deny their own creative self-fulfillment and future options, to amass authoritative abstractions, and to welcome adulthood within the parameters given by others. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Aspiration, Career Education, Creative Development, Educational Philosophy
Szaj, Kathleen C. – Momentum, 1998
Describes the development and growth of a program at a new York City public elementary school called Growing a Story: A Theatrical Exploration of Imagination for Literacy Enrichment. This arts educational program fosters students' pride of ownership, self-esteem, and interdependence through improvised creation and performance of original…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Drama
Annarella, Lorie A. – 1992
The use of creative drama in the classroom is a student-focused process where experiential learning can be fostered and developed within any given curriculum. It can help students to develop divergent thinking skills, inventive creativity, and cognitive thinking skills, and it can stimulate the development of oral and written communication skills.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Creative Development
Cousins, Norman – CASE Currents, 1979
The function of the university is shown to be not only to train people but to educate them. The importance of creativity, longevity, and humor are discussed. Short conversations with Charles A. Beard, Albert Schweitzer, Nehru, and Krushchev reveal the essence of "What I've Learned." (MLW)
Descriptors: College Role, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Futures (of Society)
Bellingham, Henry – Gifted Education International, 1995
A Conservative member of the British Parliament addresses the critical need to develop the cultural resource of creative talent. The prime inhibitor of creative development is thought to be the walls of bureaucracy which pervade modern life. Implications for British schools choosing to opt out of local authority control are outlined. (DB)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Creative Development, Creativity, Educational Trends
Greenblatt, Arthur; Striby, James – New Directions for Experiential Learning, 1981
Increasing concern in art education for the student's learning needs in both cognitive and affective domains requires that attention be given to more than "products" developed. The creative learning process is strengthened by attention to personal as well as product outcomes. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Objectives, Art Education, Artists
Harris, Sydney J. – 1981
The concept of excellence is explored in relation to various dimensions. Since the time of ancient Greece, there has been difficulty in defining "the Good," or the nature of human excellence. It is suggested that "the Good" of which excellence is an important part is a fundamental concept of the human personality, and that…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Creative Development, Educational Benefits, Educational Quality