Although they have limited academic ability, mentally retarded children may be quite adept at social interaction or physical, artistic, or other tasks. Research was conducted to examine the creative, self-concept, and impulsive characteristics of MR pupils and to examine and compare, as to age and intellectual development, the performance of both…

The annotated bibliography on Creativity--Research/Tests & Measurements/Intelligence contains approximately 60 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1964 to 1975 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources…

The annotated bibliography on Creativity--General/Classroom/Problem Solving contains approximately 85 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1962 to 1975 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information…

The articles collected in this issue are devoted to the topic of film in the English and language arts classroom. Titles include "Film Study: Some Problems and Approaches" (Judd Chesler), "The New Basic Skill: Film" (Harold M. Foster), "Caveat Viewer: Developing Viewing Perceptions" (Edward S. Dermon), "Shreds and Patches: Improvised Textbook"…

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions with Bruno Bettelheim on the importance of fairy tales for children, with Frank Williams on tensions in children when they try to create, and with Donald Bigelow on "Loudmouse" by Richard…

The author examines three teaching methodologies (repetitive, conceptual, and creative) and concludes that teaching should produce in students a balance of specific, convergent, and divergent thinking. If industrial arts educators limit teaching to known and accepted practices, programs and opportunities for young people are limited. (LH)

Discusses books which will help satisfy the curiosity of children, ages 4-14, concerning, themselves, the natural world, people and places, machines, facts and proof, ideals, the social world, creative experiences, the world of imagination, and the supernatural. (ED)

A partial transcript of a radio interview with Eda LeShan concerning her perceptions of the current state of children's education and how it might be improved. (BRT)

Shifting emphasis from the finished paper to the process of composition can result in better, more honest student writing.

Describes an entertaining approach to use in stimulating creative thinking in elementary science. (JMB)

Lists and discusses factors that contribute to creativity theory, such as analogy, archetypes, symbols, conditions that foster creativity, and syntactic fluency. (RL)

A questionnaire for focusing college student attention upon the subtleties implicit in a three-dimensional model of creativity is presented. (BD)

Discusses the societal roles, perceptions, and methods of both the artist and the scientist. Contends that both combine elements of experience whose interrelationship is not perceived by anyone else; thus both are required for survival, since the syntheses of their compositions provide new insights into reality. Journal availability: see SO 506…

Examines the objectives of a 16-week course on how a professor can determine the degree to which traits of creativity have been developed in students. Also tests for creative thinking are evaluated. (Author/RK)

Recommends that students be required to write poems in elementary French classes according to prescribed linguistic rules. The recommendation is justified from pedagogical, literary and linguistic perspectives. (MLA)