Ideas for alumni magazine articles and features are drawn from a variety of sources. Ideas include: scholarships and donor profiles; profiling administrators as "teams"; update on campus neighborhood changes; interviewing campus specialists for practical information; alumni retrospectives; student and alumni perspectives on current…

Daycare workers who had received in-service instruction on the characteristics of creatively gifted preschool children were more effective in successfully identifying preschool children with highly original ideas than were a comparable group of untrained daycare workers. (Author/SBH)

Examines Chaplin's movement from silent films to sound films and his reluctant use of the spoken word and inclination to link human speech to basically sterile functions. (JMF)

Evidence demonstrating the success of college programs offered in prisons is presented with emphasis on the high level of creativity and skill in literary areas. (JMF)

Adventure playgrounds provide children with an area free from the imposition of adult values and social competition--a crucial necessity in a healthful maturation process. (LH)

A review of the representative research and theoretical literature on right hemisphere processes and psychophysiological models regarding the functional organization of the brain is presented. (Author)

This article describes a seventh-grade physical education class project that called for definitions of 21 terms such as human movement, dance, rhythm, time, space, etc. Individual projects included booklets, movies, photomontages, scrapbooks, and posters. (JMF)

Three studies suggest that students involved in observational activities increase the level of specificity in their writing after only 10 to 15 days of instruction and are judged to be more creative. (DD)

The article describes C. Taylor's "multiple talent" approach for gifted children which states that schools have traditionally tapped only one type of talent, academic, and that many more children would have a chance to excel if schools increased emphasis on other areas. (PHR)

The title chosen for this paper clearly states the author's philosophy about the creative or about education in general. Creativity must exist in classrooms, whether or not with the so-called gifted, slow-learner, or average student. Education should bring out the best in those children which have to be educated. (Author)

Considers the definition and assessment of creativity, a framework for understanding what occurs during the creative thinking process, and how the caregiver, educator, or helping professional can develop creativity to find solutions to caregiving or managerial problems. Discusses the attributes of creative individuals, and is the importance of…

Reviews two books about early childhood curriculum based on young children's developmental needs: "The Whole Child" (J. Hendrick) discusses inclusion of special needs children in the classroom and Piaget's theory of the emergence of thinking and reasoning skill; "Creative Experiences for Young Children" (Mimi Brodsky Chenfield)…

The challenge for education in today's knowledge age is developing students' capacity for sustained creative work with ideas. Although even the youngest students don't fear the abstract, working to improve ideas is an acquired disposition. Creative production is a progressive design process. Software is described in which students, as a community,…

A college professor who invites his students to consider how creativity is at the heart of teaching offers thoughts on creativity. Everyone can learn creatively; creative approaches are essential to learning; there are many ways to learn; in school there is too much fragmentation; the creative teacher does not always know what will happen; and to…

Preparations for a Canadian exhibit in a Paris museum prompted reflections on how the adversity encountered in Canada's northern wilderness has fostered Inuit inventiveness and creativity. Anecdotes of other people's adaptations to harsh conditions illustrate that inventiveness is universal to the human condition. Perhaps the best example of…