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Download full textAmbrose, Don – Education Sciences, 2021
Creativity, giftedness, and leadership are complex, important phenomena, especially in the threatening turbulence of 21st-century conditions; consequently, there is an increasing need to understand how to strengthen them. We can learn much about these phenomena from within the borders of specialized disciplines; however, they are too complex and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Gifted, Creativity, Leadership
Ness, Daniel; Farenga, Stephen J. – American Journal of Play, 2016
The authors consider the strengths and weaknesses of three different visuo-spatial constructive play object (VCPO) types--blocks, bricks, and planks--and their impact on the development of creativity in spatial thinking and higher learning during free play. Each VCPO has its own set of attributes, they note, leading to different purposes,…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Play, Manipulative Materials
Direct linkHakak, Alireza Mahdizadeh; Biloria, Nimish; Rahimi, Mozhgan Raouf – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2012
What can be extracted as a common definition amongst near 100 different definitions of creativity according to different disciplines is: Creativity is a new combination of what you have in your inventory of experiences + intuition. It can be considered that expanding the inventory of experiences can gradually help in novel combination of…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Architecture, Creativity, Virtual Classrooms
Lockiewicz, Marta; Bogdanowicz, Katarzyna M.; Bogdanowicz, Marta – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
The aim of our study was to describe specific psychological resources of adults with developmental dyslexia and compare them with psychological resources of adults without developmental dyslexia. Potential differences were analyzed in visual-spatial, creative, and motivational abilities. No evidence was found for either creative, or visuospatial…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Dyslexia, Adults, Visual Perception
Moore, Dana W.; Bhadelia, Rafeeque A.; Billings, Rebecca L.; Fulwiler, Carl; Heilman, Kenneth M.; Rood, Kenneth M. J.; Gansler, David A. – Brain and Cognition, 2009
Background/hypothesis: Divergent thinking is an important measurable component of creativity. This study tested the postulate that divergent thinking depends on large distributed inter- and intra-hemispheric networks. Although preliminary evidence supports increased brain connectivity during divergent thinking, the neural correlates of this…
Descriptors: Creativity, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Creative Thinking, Males
Ramadas, Jayashree – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
This paper surveys some major trends from research on visual and spatial thinking coming from cognitive science, developmental psychology, science literacy, and science studies. It explores the role of visualisation in creativity, in building mental models, and in the communication of scientific ideas, in order to place these findings in the…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Science Education
Chan, David W. – High Ability Studies, 2008
Ninety university undergraduate students were tested on a number of tasks assessing their recognition of possible and impossible figures, mental rotation, ideational fluency, and self-report artistic and creative characteristics. Scores on the Impossible Figures Task (IFT-14) and the Mental Rotation Test, and self-ratings on the Artistic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Visual Arts, Gifted, Rating Scales
Ferrando, M.; Prieto, M. D.; Ferrandiz, C.; Sanchez, C. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2005
Introduction: Numerous authors have investigated the relationship which exists between creativity and intelligence, and diverse results were found. Thus, Guilford (1950) includes creativity within the intelligence construct, Sternberg (1988) alludes to creativity as encompassing the intelligence construct; Gardner (1995) indicates a close…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Creativity, History, Spatial Ability
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
