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Cropley, Arthur J. – 2001
This book explores creativity in the context of education, focusing on what creativity is, how it works, and how it can be fostered. The book sets forth general principles for encouraging creativity in schools, higher education, and the family. The chapters are: (1) "Creativity: Basic Concepts"; (2) "The Role of Thinking in Creativity"; (3)…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Knofla, Tracy – Campus Activities Programming, 1994
Ways in which to revive and promote creativity in campus activities programming are offered. Specific steps to take, particularly in committee meetings, to energize individual thinking and group processes and to improve programming and publicity are detailed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Committees, Creative Activities, Creative Development
Richardson, Glenn E.; Jordan, Rebecca – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1981
Five different perspectives on creativity in teaching are examined: (1) Creativity is developed by making teaching methods from almost nothing. (2) Creativity is fostered by idealizing without constraint. (3) Creativity can be developed through analogs. (4) Creativity can mean to reorganize or modify. (5) Creativity can be fostered using a forced…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creative Teaching, Creativity
Peer reviewedSchwab, Lynne – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
This article describes a process for increasing the quality of students' thinking through alternating from a quiet intuitive state to rational logical processing. The article provides specific teaching suggestions using guided imagery for students in grades K-2, grades 3-4, and grades 5 through college. (DB)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedAlter, Judith B. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
To enable college students to grapple with their own process of creating, students complete a project that involves collecting a variety of small objects, dividing the objects into two categories, telling a story using all the objects, describing their feelings about the categorization and story-telling activities, and writing about their creative…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Creative Activities
Phillips, Estelle M. – Vocational Aspect of Education, 1982
This paper sets out the current situation in a number of schools and institutions of higher education with departments of design. A case is presented for the design curriculum to be regarded as a serious academic subject which makes a unique contribution to pupils' cognitive, emotional, psychomotor, and social development. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Creative Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Design Crafts
Download full textHelm, Judy Harris, Ed. – 1998
Projects are in-depth studies of a topic undertaken by a class, a group, or an individual child. Projects are intended to strengthen children's dispositions to be interested, absorbed, and involved in in-depth observation, investigation, and representation of worthwhile phenomena in their own environments. This Catalog on the Project Approach, the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Creative Development, Discovery Learning
