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Direct linkMark A. Runco; Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi; Selcuk Acar; Alaa Eldin A. Ayoub – Creativity Research Journal, 2023
Creative potential is one of the most important topics for research. It is difficult to study because, unlike creative products, potential is by definition latent. There are several useful methods. One involves comparing creative activity expressed in various settings. Previous research has, for example, compared creativity expressed in school…
Descriptors: Creativity, Aptitude, Environmental Influences, Educational Environment
Download full textBlankenship, Bethany – Student Success, 2020
This practice report discusses the term "bricolage" and its relationship to student learning. The positive and negative perceptions of teachers and students as "bricoleurs" (those who practice bricolage) are discussed. An exploratory study that examines the application of bricolage in the classroom is discussed. In two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Knowledge Level, Creativity
Glaveanu, Vlad Petre; Hanchett Hanson, Michael; Baer, John; Barbot, Baptiste; Clapp, Edward P.; Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele; Hennessey, Beth; Kaufman, James C.; Lebuda, Izabela; Lubart, Todd; Montuori, Alfonso; Ness, Ingunn J.; Plucker, Jonathan; Reiter-Palmon, Roni; Sierra, Zayda; Simonton, Dean Keith; Neves-Pereira, Monica Souza; Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
This manifesto, discussed by 20 scholars, representing diverse lines of creativity research, marks a conceptual shift within the field. Socio-cultural approaches have made substantial contributions to the concept of creativity over recent decades and today can provide a set of propositions to guide our understanding of past research and to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Sociocultural Patterns, Scholarship, Futures (of Society)
Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2020
The current research study utilized a case study research method to test the theory that the creativity and innovative processes are a complex adaptive system. Through qualitative interviews with renowned creators, the current study categorized the data into eight characteristics of complex adaptive systems: path dependent, systems have a history,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Innovation, Systems Approach, Evaluation Methods
Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
This article describes a "straight-A" model of the creative process. It characterizes the creative process in five overlapping phases, with the variables most affecting those phases characterized as: (1) activators, (2) abilities, (3) amplifiers, (4) appeal to audience, and (5) assessment by audience. The creative process does not…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Creativity, Audiences, Correlation
Mi, Shuaishuai; Bi, Hualin; Lu, Shanshan – Creativity Research Journal, 2020
This study aimed to identify trends and foundations of creativity research in education using the Structural Topic Model (STM). First, English-language journal articles about creativity research in education included in the Social Science Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded databases were selected. Then, considering semantic…
Descriptors: Creativity, Educational Research, Correlation, Incidence
Barnett, Ronald – Higher Education Quarterly, 2020
The Creative University is susceptible to multiple interpretations which are moving in a fluid conceptual space. This conceptual openness can be adequately understood only as a set of discursive formations that reflect underlying societal changes. It is becoming a commonplace to suggest that creativity should no longer be seen as a matter of…
Descriptors: Creativity, Universities, Social Change, Economics
Sternberg, Robert J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
Creativity testing as it is now done is often based on a defective assumption that different kinds of creativity can be compressed into a single unidimensional scale. There is no reason to believe that the different kinds of creativity represent, simply, different amounts of a single unidimensional construct. The article shows how three different…
Descriptors: Creativity Tests, Test Validity, Misconceptions, Models
Davis, Thomas J.; Fichtenholtz, Harlan M. – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
This research explored the relationship between mental fatigue and creativity by testing the creative potential of 25 Keene State College students, half of which were subjected to mental fatigue. Little research has been done to look at these 2 variables together, but considerable research has been done on them individually. Using an…
Descriptors: Creativity, Stress Variables, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests
Carlsson, Ingegerd; Davidson, Per; Ors, Marianne – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
The effect of napping versus wakefulness was studied on primed and repeated Remote Associate Tests (RATs) and on divergent creativity tests. The participants were 42 students from the USA, studying international courses at a Swedish university. The hypotheses for the RATs were (1), when the correct answers were primed before the nap, the RAT…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Sleep, Creativity Tests
Maria Jesus Avitia – ProQuest LLC, 2019
When a student has a learning disability in reading and or dyslexia, interventions focus on remediating the weakness. Positive psychology is a field of psychology that looks to help people, based on harnessing a person's strengths, to create better outcomes. Strengths-based or asset-based interventions have been used with people with developmental…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Dyslexia, Spatial Ability, Creativity
Martín-Brufau, Ramón; Berná, Javier Corbalán – Creativity Research Journal, 2021
More than 50 years since the introduction of the concept of divergent production, little progress has been made in the development of parsimonious theoretical models that sufficiently explain creativity. Recently, the optimal foraging theory has been used to explain the search for items in memory tasks, suggesting the correspondence between the…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Creativity
Li Bao; Pitsanu Boonsriana – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2024
Chengdu's popular music, with its profound historical and cultural significance, serves as an educational resource at the intersection of music, literacy, and cultural education. This research aims to propose guidelines for the teaching resource of Chengdu popular music for fostering literacy and cultural education. Located in the culturally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Culture, Music, Literacy
Fiona Maine – Theory Into Practice, 2024
This article argues that provisional language is important for creating a dialogic space between speakers, where ideas are open for discussion; where participants respect each other's viewpoints; and where the goal is to encourage and explore multiple perspectives. Whilst much of the research on children's talk in the classroom focuses on the…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Persuasive Discourse, Perspective Taking, Classroom Communication
Kailea Saplan; Sam Abramovich; Peter Wardrip – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Public libraries have embraced the popularity of maker education and makerspaces by integrating maker education in their program offerings, and by developing makerspaces that enable patrons to tinker and create products. But less attention has been paid to supporting librarians and maker educators in assessing the impact of these spaces. To expand…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Design, Shared Resources and Services, Library Personnel
