An interview in which Miss West describes the phase-elective program of McClelland High School, Little Rock, Arkansas. (PF)

The Office of Gifted and Talented, New Jersey, and the Department of Education and Industrial Arts of Glassboro, South Carolina, cosponsored the first "Olympics of the Mind," a competition designed to develop and recognize the creative talents of high school students. The activity is described, and information for schools and teachers is provided.…

The author describes a preservice mathematics methods course designed to develop independent learning and productive thinking skills as well as knowledge of mathematics methods. (MJB)

This article addresses the problems that artists and writers face in the classroom because their roles have not been delineated. The Teachers and Writers Collaborative is an organization set up to address their needs. (Author/AM)

Examines motives that can serve as the framework for a creative composition course and suggests some specific creative writing procedures. (DD)

Problems faced by terminally ill patients and ways those problems are addressed by institutional care givers may thwart the patient's creative impulses, which are basic to living. This essay describes how the staff of Hillhaven Hospice encourages and supports creativity of patients through creative writing. (Author)

Discusses creative processes in science regarding: (1) the personal quality of creativity; (2) how to teach creative science; (3) communication of scientific creativity; and (4) reward system of scientific creativity. (HM)

The course Introduction to Technology (Quebec Department of Education) allows a student to increase his creative processes while increasing his technological awareness. This awareness is developed by the construction of a prototype which arises out of substantive technical information and a perceived personal need relative to a particular theme.…

Asserts that the greatest hindrance to creativity is what students have learned about school and describes exercises to encourage the creative writing process. (KS)

Discusses the use and stimulation of lateral, or divergent, thinking to promote creativity. (SL)

Teachers became more accepting of the need for and desirability of creativity after attending a half-day program designed to foster a positive view of creativity. (GO)

Discusses an economic and morphological analysis of the field of contemporary music creation in order to define the three major problems which face governments and local authorities which intervene to support a fairly large number of bodies concerned with the production and/or performance of music and which are unable to finance themselves.…

Described is the master's program in elementary education at West Chester State College (Pennsylvania), which is designed to implement the process of applying the theory and research in creativity to classroom practice. (SBH)

This paper explores child humor from the early years to adolescence. The immature child's humor is crude, rude, and hostile and gradually evolves into sophisticated, socially acceptable adult humor in the same way that the immature child in general evolves into the sophisticated adult, becoming decreasingly creative along the way. (JDD)