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Teaching Creativity across Disciplines at Ontario Universities
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Marquis, Elizabeth; Henderson, Jeremy A. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
While a wide variety of publications have suggested that the development of student creativity should be an important objective for contemporary universities, information about how best to achieve this goal across a range of disciplinary contexts is nonetheless scant. The present study aimed to begin to fill this gap by gathering data (via an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Development, Creativity, Universities
The Extent of the Contribution of the Educational Environment of Najran University in Developing Creative and Innovative Enterprises among the University Students
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Nimer, Ameen Mohammad – Journal of Educational Issues, 2016
This study aims at identifying the reality of stimulating educational environment for creativity at the Najran University (NU), and the importance of the availability of certain influencing factors, which in turn contribute to the provision of innovative and creative projects. Reviewing the literature and related studies, the importance of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Environment, Creativity, Innovation
De-Mystifying Inventive Thinking: A Survey with Pedagogic Implications
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Clark, Andre – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2013
Students on an enterprise course running in a number of colleges in the UK in which invention and innovation formed part of the curriculum were asked to complete a questionnaire immediately upon having an inventive thought in an attempt to establish the thinking processes involved. Results from those who had ideas that subsequently proved to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Questionnaires
Training College Adults to Think Creatively With Words
Khatena, Joe – Psychol Rep, 1970
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Creative Development, Creative Expression
Enhancing Creative Performance in College Students.
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Greer, Martin; Levine, Elaine – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
This study compared the relative effectiveness of fantasy induction, intrinsic motivation induction, and combined fantasy/intrinsic motivation induction upon creative writing performance of 100 freshmen college students. All three methods enhanced the creativity of the students' poetry writing, with the conjunctive approach exhibiting no more…
Descriptors: College Students, Creative Development, Creative Writing, Creativity
Convergent, Divergent, and Aesthetic Ability and Bias in College Students: Their Relation to Personality and Preference for Major Subject and Instructional Method
Ycas, Martynas A.; Pascal, Charles E. – Improving Human Performance, 1974
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, College Students, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
Writers as Teachers/Teachers as Writers.
Baumbach, Jonathan, Ed. – 1970
In an attempt to exorcise cliched, hollow, "voiceless prose," 11 diverse novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, and critics who are serious teachers of writing share their insights and feelings about their roles as teachers and about writing. Some of the goals expressed in these essays about the relationship between processes of writing and the…
Descriptors: Authors, Classroom Environment, College Students, Creative Development
The Effects of Educational Imagery on University Students' Creativity Levels and Locus of Control.
Richardson, Glenn E.; Wylie, Wayne E. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1984
The results of a study on college students indicate that creativity levels are positively affected by educational imagery. Educational imagery can be used in the health curriculum as a method for problem solving and developing self-control. Data and conclusions from this study are explained. (DF)
Descriptors: College Students, Creative Development, Creativity Tests, Decision Making Skills
Experiencing Creating and Creativity in the Classroom.
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Alter, 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