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Infusing Creativity into Eastern Classrooms: Evaluations from Student Perspectives
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Cheng, Vivian M. Y. – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2011
Infusing creativity elements into regular classroom was an important movement in recent Asian educational reforms. A large-scale research study was conducted in Hong Kong to explore the possibilities, outcomes and difficulties of this kind of curriculum change from students' perspectives. Based mainly on Western creativity literature, this study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Creativity, Transfer of Training
The Effects of a Training Program upon the Creative Performance of Fourth Grade Children; Report from the Project on Task and Training Variables in Human Problem Solving and Creative Thinking.
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Freiheit, Susan Gretchen – 1969
To determine if use of a creativity training workbook (Stretch) would increase creative performance, 45 fourth grade pupils were studied. The students were divided into control and experimental groups with half high (mean IQ 113) and half normal (mean IQ 101) ability with the controls using a placebo workbook and the experimentals using the…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Creativity Research
The "Whistles" Stop Here: Encouraging Meaningful Creative Thinking in the Classroom.
Meador, Karen – Understanding Our Gifted, 2001
This article provides 20 principles to enable educators to identify meaningful creative activities for gifted students and avoid the superfluous "whistles". Activities should: value creative thinking, make children more sensitive to environmental stimuli, encourage manipulation of objects and ideas, develop tolerance for new ideas, and teach how…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creativity, Educational Principles