The author proposes an inservice teacher training course on creativity which emphasizes the historical and theoretical aspects of creativity; the environmental contributors to creativity (through biographical analysis of the lives of creative individuals); the identification of creative potential; and the application of creativity theories and…

Research findings at the Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, reveal that adequate data for meaningful research on talented women are unavailable. The findings also imply that (1) the most talented and creative college women apparently leave colleges in which they first enrolled before the end of four…

The author proposes a four-step plan for identifying and facilitating creative potential in children. (SBH)

The report examines cultural and social forces in the United States which discourage innovation and creativity. The history of American innovation is reviewed; innovation is defined as the process by which new knowledge is generated and applied in the material and intellectual operations of society. Effects on innovation of the changing economic…