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Peer reviewedAnderson, Jared; Barrera, Gregory; Benedict, Julie; Cavanaugh, Michael; Christensen, Jessica; Clark, Susannah; Dallimore, Natalie; Drown, Danielle; Fink, Susan; Hansen, Josh; Haubner, Ashley; Hinsdale, Robin; Johnson, Tyler; King, JuLee; Maufort, Brenda; Neubauer, Laura; Popple, Jennifer; Praggastis, Cate; Price, Matt; Raber, Lloyd; Rowland, Tiffany; Strite-Hatch, Amy; Torson, Christine; Tuckness, Tara – Stage of the Art, 2003
Explains that each year, theatre education majors at the University of Utah select a production that will be mounted by a professional theatre company on the campus. Explains that the theatre education majors complete extensive dramaturgical research for the production, and create a process drama pre-show piece that is presented to over 1500 K-12…
Descriptors: Creativity, Drama, Elementary Secondary Education, Role Playing
Peer reviewedGura, Mark – Educational Leadership, 1993
By borrowing from pop culture, New York City teacher created Trading Heroes, "values clarification course" drawing on powerful hero phenomenon and students' creativity. Following a discussion of heroic qualities, students select one or more personal heroes as subjects for trading cards they will produce themselves. Students make the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Elementary Education, Popular Culture, Student Participation
Peer reviewedCurtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1996
Explains how teachers of students in grades four through six can use the Teaching Games for Understanding Approach and incorporate games invention into the physical education curriculum. A three-step model is proposed: selection and modification of games; teaching games with an understanding approach; and student invention of games. Summaries of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Creativity, Games
Peer reviewedShah, Jami J.; Vargas-Hernandez, Noe; Summers, Joshua D.; Kulkarni, Santosh – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2001
This paper describes the development and evaluation of C-Sketch, a technique for concept generation in a collaborative engineering design setting. Analysis of experiments conducted over five years concludes that C-Sketch not only has intrinsic merit, but also measures higher in all outcomes when compared to other approaches including Method 6-3-5…
Descriptors: Creativity, Engineering Drawing, Engineering Education, Higher Education
Diehm, Celleste – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
In this article, the author suggests solutions to unleash student creativity. The article focuses on the author's idea for electronic portfolios, Web-based collections of a student's work. To put her idea into practice, the author created an electronic portfolio project that spanned five 90-minute class sessions (about one session every week or…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Portfolios (Background Materials), Internet, Educational Technology
Direct linkBleakley, Alan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2004
While there is agreement that creativity is central to teaching, learning and curriculum in higher education, what is meant by creativity is not always clear. The term is often employed uncritically, in the singular, and is reified. Where creativity is used with specificity, this is often over-determined, so that the term remains limited to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Instructional Innovation, Classification, Models
Mindham, Carole – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2005
There is a Chinese proverb which tells that a child is like a piece of paper: everyone who touches it leaves a mark, so one should make sure those marks are positive. In this article, the author raises an issue which concerns providing for, recognizing and celebrating creativity in children's play. It involves challenging the set of ideas about…
Descriptors: Creativity, Play, Children, Imagination
Manna, Concettina; Minichiello, Giuliano – Teaching Education, 2005
In the context of learning theories the problem of the passage from the psychological dimension governed by images to the "scientific" dimension dominated by concepts needs to be reformulated. The starting point of the question should be recognition that at a "deep" level, between the two dimensions, there is a bridge, the design of which can be…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Imagination, Story Telling, Semantics
Alley, Alvin Douglas – 1967
In this study, an analysis of the various theories of creativity was made to formulate guiding principles for teaching "creative rhetoric" in the secondary schools. The following basic assumptions were made: (1) Rhetoric is concerned with man's problems. (2) Rhetoric is a synthesis of the imaginative and rational processes. (3) Acts of rhetoric…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing
Schiller, Susan A. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
This book is a teacher resource based on holistic education for those educators who want to go beyond "traditional approaches" but do not know how. The author places emphasis on the whole person (intellectual, physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and environmental) rather than the intellectual way of knowing. Written in an easy-to-read format,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods, Multiple Intelligences, Holistic Approach
Scholl, Mark B.; Smith-Adcock, Sondra – Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 2007
The authors briefly introduce the concepts, techniques, and theory of identity development associated with J. L. Moreno's (1946, 1969, 1993) Psychodrama. Based upon Loganbill, Hardy, and Delworth's (1982) model, counselor identity development is conceptualized as consisting of seven developmental themes or vectors (e.g., issues of awareness and…
Descriptors: Supervision, Drama, Counseling Techniques, Group Counseling
Moore, E. M – Industry and Higher Education, 2007
A cursory review of academic headlines would suggest that educational institutions can be perceived as formalized, regimented and systematic--intellectual factories that reward those staff and students who conform best to rigid systems which ensure the efficient processing of quantity. Is this the reality? Do prevailing economic and bureaucratic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Creativity, Schools, Social Sciences
Dahlman, Ylva – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2007
The origin of this article is an investigation of an academic course, "Graphic Arts and Design for students of natural and social sciences." The article describes the benefits of attending the class for the science students, which were an increased ability to solve problems, new and different ways to observe the environment, greater self…
Descriptors: Courses, Social Sciences, Self Esteem, Graphic Arts
Reyes, Sharon Adelman – Journal of Latinos & Education, 2007
Welcome to the classroom of Jill Sontag and her 19 young bilingual collaborators. Join them as they simultaneously explore the world of insects and the world of language. These curious and energetic second graders are easily drawn into the realm of bugs. Encouraging them to speak in Spanish, however, is a bit more complicated. Jill uses her…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Entomology, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education
Download full textTezci, Erdogan; Karaca, Denizhan; Sezginsoy, Burcu – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2008
Creativity is an important ability in the teaching-learning process because of its contribution to the struggle to cope with complex problems, to ensuring satisfaction in life and to the improvement in professional development. Especially, creativity is one of the essential abilities that teachers need in teaching-learning processes in their…
Descriptors: Creativity, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis, Learning Processes
