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Line Togsverd; Oline Pedersen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This paper contributes to the expanding body of research on Playful Learning (PL) within Higher Education (HE), offering an in-depth examination of narratives concerning student participation and engagement in PL emerging as educators reflect on their experiences with PL in Danish teacher education and social education. In attempt to nuance and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Interpersonal Competence, Higher Education
Löytönen, Teija – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
This paper explores creative educational development by asking what it is or might become. It is based on a singular pedagogical process within the fields of arts, design, and architecture in higher education. The exploration is framed by Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference, which allows for a movement beyond educational certainties that…
Descriptors: Art Education, Higher Education, Educational Development, Creative Development
Tomás-Miquel, José-Vicente; Expósito-Langa, Manuel; Nicolau-Juliá, Débora – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
In recent years, the literature has highlighted the importance of relational aspects on student attainment in higher education. Much of this previous work agrees with the idea that students' connectedness has beneficial effects on their performance. However, this literature has generally overlooked the influence that the discipline of study may…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, Creativity
Simonton, Dean Keith – Teaching of Psychology, 2012
In the past decade, the psychological study of creativity has accelerated greatly. To facilitate the teaching of creativity, I provide an overview of the recent literature. The overview begins by discussing recent empirical results and research trends. This discussion specifically treats creativity's cognitive, differential, developmental, and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Development, Instruction, Teaching Methods
de Villiers Scheepers, Margarietha J.; Maree, Lelani – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2015
This paper examines how team creativity can be developed using the Synectics creative problem-solving approach by taking stickiness into account. Stickiness represents the difficulty learners experience in internalising knowledge and skills to perform a task productively. Using a quasi-experimental design learners' perceived change in team…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Creativity, Problem Solving
Marra, James L. – 1989
One of the major problems in advertising courses is that students are expected to generate original, exciting advertising ideas, but often are not taught how to go about the process. Idea generation techniques can help students generate quantities of creative ideas more quickly and fluently. By looking at ads and recreating the workings of the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Class Activities, Creative Development, Creativity
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
Shi, Fuqian; Wei, Jincai – International Education Studies, 2008
In the current teaching activities on curriculum, teachers taught all kinds of computer language at the most of the time. Students also focus on a variety of examinations, but the real time to train students' independent software developing skill is very limited. This has resulted in the students only to copy other people's systems design ideas,…
Descriptors: Programming, Creative Thinking, Creative Development, Science Activities
Freeman, John – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2006
This article proposes an approach to teaching and learning in the university arts sector that is able to accommodate and assess creative process alongside practice. In arguing thus, romanticized notions of "the spontaneous artist" are exposed to scrutiny, and the creative process itself is made subject to analysis. Notwithstanding its focus on the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Creativity, Lifelong Learning, Learning Experience
Youngkin, Betty – CEA Forum, 1982
Two ways of stimulating creativity--meditation and structured physical movement--bring a new dimension to the teaching of composition by encouraging visualization and imagery, strengthening the integration of both hemispheres of the brain, and allowing the brain to rest. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity

Linder, Toni W. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1981
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…
Descriptors: Course Content, Creative Development, Creativity, Higher Education

Giauque, Gerald S. – Hispania, 1985
Argues that in order to revitalize foreign language learning, language teachers must make every classroom a place where students can mold their personal tastes or apply the language to their own background and interests. Argues that language learning has a humanistic value in and of itself. (SED)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Teaching, Higher Education, Humanistic Education

Slabbert, Johannes A. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1994
This discussion of creativity in its educational context first considers the role of the creative product, process, personality, and environment. A proposal for teaching student teachers to teach more creatively is offered. The approach stresses development of originality, fluency, abstraction, elaboration, and openness. (DB)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Teaching, Creativity, Higher Education

Dial, Jackie – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
Creativity can be distinguished from intelligence, but there is no consensus on how the recognized stages of the creative act can be taught. The steps to rational thinking can and should be intentionally taught and rationality may prepare a base for unexpected creative insights. (DB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Creative Development, Creativity

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