Humor in college and university publications is helping editors and designers communicate to target audiences. Successful campus punmakers are identified at LaGuardia Community College, Brigham Young University, and Johns Hopkins. (MLW)

Suggestions are provided on how to identify the preschool gifted-talented-creative (GTC) child, how parents explain away giftedness, how parents can retrospectively understand themselves as GTC, how to deal with problem behavior and the effects of divided parental authority, and how to bring out the best in each child. (JDD)

Efforts at a Czechoslovakian university to prepare undergraduate and graduate students to think creatively by integrating cultural education with the sciences in the general curriculum are described. The program, which also targets gifted students, is mandated by a 1980 law. (MSE)

Discusses a current research effort that investigated the career orientations of a representative sample of urban secondary and elementary teachers in Utah. The author creates a theoretical background for the study and introduces the Career Orientation Inventory that was used in the data collection process. Implications for the urban educator are…

A discussion of legal scholarship for new law teachers looks at the objectives of scholarship, standards for assessing scholarly ability, and considerations for the teacher to make in choosing the kind of scholarship to pursue. (MSE)

The issues of greatest current interest in the field of gifted education are reviewed, including comprehensive curriculum planning, enhancing development of both academic and creative dimensions of giftedness, and use of non-school resources. Also discussed is nurturing future leaders among the gifted to address the world's social and scientific…

A review of research (particularly that conducted by N. Meier, T. Munro, and B. Lark-Horovitz et al.) about the nature of giftedness in the visual arts and focusing on creativity, imagination, aesthetic judgment, and perceptual ability, provides a basis for examining current assumptions and practices and a foundation for future research. (CB)

Outlines the discipline-based art education curriculum developed by the Getty Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts in the Los Angeles County elementary schools. (Author/MD)

Differences in cognitive and interpersonal characteristics between good problem solvers and good problem posers (inventors) were examined with 35 ninth graders. Good problem posers were more field independent and had a more positive self image than problem solvers. (DB)

Traces the growth and movement of Japanese research and technology efforts and achievements. Explains policies related to science and technology and examines resultant actions. Provides perspectives on the future direction and role of creativity in Japanese research. (ML)

The author discusses various reasons that have been set forth for teaching sewing in the classroom. Reasons include (1) economy, (2) skill development, (3) quality recognition, (4) self-esteem, and (5) creativity. The latter receives some emphasis. (CH)

Discusses ways of identifying and helping gifted-disabled students--students who possess high intellectual abilities but also have some learning disorder. (FL)

This study assessed the effects of learning logo computer programing and computer-assisted instruction (CAI) on specific cognitive skills, metacognitive skills, creativity, and achievement. The programing group scored significantly higher on measures of operational competence, two of three measures of metacognitive skills, and a measure of…

Today, because of the problem-solving skills necessary for successful 21st century living, students must be taught higher-order thinking skills. Principles intended to stimulate discussion about the appropriate means for teaching higher-order thinking are examined. (RM)

A project which involved 11th- and 12th-grade art students in creating a "Jackson Pollock type" lyrical action painting is described. As a result of the project, the students gained a freedom of expression which was evident in their subsequent art projects and a tolerance toward twentieth-century art. (RM)