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Bruch, Catherine; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1979
The article focuses on the applications of the GENESA model (a life sized model of the geometry of a biological cell) in the enhancement of the creative processes during the stages of incubation, illumination, and verification, with emphasis primarily on the phase of incubation/imagery through potential illumination. (SBH)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Gifted
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Wenger, Win – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1981
The author describes three techniques for developing conscious awareness of the responses and behaviors of the right parietal lobe through describing a right brain related impression aloud in sensory image terms of color, shape, and texture. (CL)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Creative Development, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
Whalen, Adryce C. – G/C/T, 1985
The author describes activities of a weekly enrichment class providing right-brain tasks to gifted elementary students. Activities, which centered on artistic creativity, were taken from "Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain" by B. Edwards. (CL)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Cerebral Dominance, Creative Development, Elementary Education
Herrmann, Ned – Training and Development Journal, 1981
The author argues that, in all people, one hemisphere of the brain has dominance--either the left, logical side, or the right, creative side. He presents methods of improving the design and delivery of learning through developing the recessive hemisphere. (CT)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
Grigsby, Donald; Wilson, Charles – 1984
The paper discusses curriculum materials and learning strategies suitable to the right hemisphere of the brain. Two limiting factors are noted--the difficulty in identifying non-pathological Ss who show right brain tendency, and asymmetry of the brain which makes empirical evaluation of the validity of these materials problematic. The paper…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Creative Development, Creativity, Geometric Concepts
Youngkin, Betty – CEA Forum, 1982
Two ways of stimulating creativity--meditation and structured physical movement--bring a new dimension to the teaching of composition by encouraging visualization and imagery, strengthening the integration of both hemispheres of the brain, and allowing the brain to rest. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Staley, Frederick A. – Journal of Physical Education and Recreation, 1980
Outdoor education facilitates the use of both cerebral hemispheres. The right side, which is often ignored in traditional education, is the location of intuitive, imaginative, and metaphoric thinking and can be used in conjunction with the left side, the base of logical and analytic thought. (CJ)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Creative Development
McCallum, R. Steve; Glynn, Shawn M. – 1979
Research relating to the relationship between hemispheric specialization and creativity is explored with particular emphasis on implications for elementary education. Physiological and psychological evidence is examined for the construct that hemispheric specialization means that the two hemispheres of the human brain are specialized for different…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Creative Development, Creativity, Creativity Tests
Karlson, Robert E. – 1978
A theory of teaching creative writing that involves preconscious learning is presented in this paper. Following a review of the literature on methods of developing writing ability, the paper describes a three-step creative process of preparation (the gathering and study of appropriate materials), incubation (the preconscious absorption and shaping…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
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Wilkinson, Joyce A. – Children's Theatre Review, 1983
Results support the use of the Developmental Drama Scale to determine levels of student involvement in developmental drama. From this research, an image emerges of the student highly involved in drama as right-brained with high self-monitoring and acting skills. (PD)
Descriptors: Acting, Cerebral Dominance, Creative Development, Creative Dramatics