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Bruce S. Rawlings; Sarah J. Cutting – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Whether schools help or hinder creativity is a topic of vibrant, international debate. Some contend that the focus on structure, rote learning and standardised assessments associated with formal education stifles children's creativity. Others argue that creativity, much like numeracy or literacy, is a skill that can be taught, and educational…
Descriptors: Creativity, Education, 21st Century Skills, Creative Thinking
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Shah, Bhagyashree; Gustafsson, Erik – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
The current study aimed to investigate whether age, gender, and testing environment may have an effect on children's creativity in a real-life setting. Participants included 111 children aged from seven to eleven years. They were given one verbal (Guilford's Alternative Uses Task) and one figural (Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Differences, Testing, Physical Environment
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Tan, Liang See; Lee, Shu Shing; Ponnusamy, Letchmi Devi; Koh, Elizabeth Ruilin; Tan, Keith Chiu Kian – Education Sciences, 2016
Researchers have argued for the importance of the classroom context in developing students' creative potential. However, the emphasis on a performative learning culture in the classroom does not favour creativity. Thus, how creative potential can be realised as one of the educational goals in the classrooms remains a key question. This study…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Academic Ability, High Achievement, Academically Gifted
Soriano de Alencar, Eunice M. L. – Gifted Education International, 1993
This article explores the conditions necessary to facilitate the growth of creativity. These conditions include cultivation of such personality traits as independence, self-confidence, initiative, flexibility, courage to express divergent ideas, and persistence; encouragement of reception to new ideas; and use of classroom exercises to produce new…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity
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Goree, Krystal – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1996
This article criticizes classroom traditions and environmental factors that serve to limit and impair students' creativity. Steps required for a more creative classroom are discussed, including adequate "think time," conducive supplies and surroundings, a risk-free environment, empowerment to think independently, and teachers who model creative…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
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Vaughnn, Margery M. – Music Educators Journal, 1973
Creativity is largely an outgrowth of attitude rather than an activity, a set of predispositions rather than a production line. Author traces the concept of creative development and the role music plays in illustrating the creative process. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Concept Formation, Creative Activities, Creative Development
Israel, Elfie – 1995
A practicum was designed to help high school students become more creative by encouraging them to be audacious, divergent thinkers capable of entertaining several contradictory ideas simultaneously. Tolerating paradox and ambiguity are vital components in developing creativity. These goals were achieved by developing a nurturing, caring, accepting…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Creative Activities, Creative Development
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Kennett, Keith F. – Education, 1984
Examines biological and environmental determinants of creative/divergent thinking in light of two studies--one showing an inverse relationship between serum uric acid and divergent thinking and one showing a positive correlation between family size and creativity in upper socioeconomic status groups. Outlines classroom practices that promote…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Creative Development
Thompson, Mark E. – 1982
The concept of creativity has many attributes and is a significant factor in our lives. Creative persons are observant, express part-truths, see things as others do not, are independent in cognitive faculties, are motivated by their talent and values, can hold many ideas at once, have greater sex drive, see a complex world, and have strong egos.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Thinking
Shaughnessy, Michael F. – 1991
In most schools in America little attention is paid to the nurturance of students' creative potential, with emphasis too often placed instead on rote, repetitive learning. The literature contains many suggestions for enhancing creativity in the classroom setting, such as refraining from discounting odd or unusual questions from students, finding…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
Honig, Alice Sterling – 2000
This paper discusses creativity in young children and what teachers can do to support and promote it. Topics addressed in the paper include: (1) teacher interest in promoting creativity; (2) defining creativity; (3) creativity in the socioemotional domain; (4) the relationship between creativity and empathy for others; (4) bibliotherapy; (5)…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Activities, Creative Art, Creative Development