The paper examines the nature of creativity and blockages to its expression especially in home and school settings in South Africa. A definition of creativity is offered which stresses the production of an original outcome or achievement. The creative process is broken down into the steps of preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification.…

Intended for writing teachers, the activities in this issue blend right/left brain lessons--kinesthetic, spatial, and playful--to provide students with prewriting experience. The activities include the following: (1) creativity olympics, such as finding criteria by which large groups of students may subdivide themselves into successively smaller…

A 1981-1982 performance report is presented for the University of Illinois' Model Program for Retrieval and Acceleration of Promising Young Handicapped and Talented (RAPYHT), which served learning-disabled, speech-impaired, orthopedically impaired, and other disabled children (3-5 years old) and provided technical assistance to replication sites.…

What if…..? What if there was a kingdom in which the ordinary was perceived as extraordinary and mediocrity was the standard of excellence? In what ways might this society mold the mindset of its subjects? How might a creative and innovative newcomer respond to the intellectually numbing environment? Would she have the courage to defy conformity…

In this paper the author identified each of seven myths, tried to state their rationale as forcefully and clearly as possible and then proceeded to examine each critically. (Author/RK)

Afterthoughts of participants in Dartmouth Conference. (JH)

The most important thing in education is not the data we present, but whether we present them vitally. (JH)

In a study of teacher expectations and behavior, teachers were told that certain children would bloom in creative ability. Eight months later the designated bloomers showed gains in creativity scores as well as in their IQ scores. (ST)

This volume was organized at the request of the SMSG Panel on Research for their use in identifying needed research in mathematics education. The five papers provide a review of research in each of their areas up through early 1969. Papers included are: (1) Attitudes Toward Mathematics, by Lewis R. Aiken, Jr.; (2) Classroom Teaching of…

The results of this study, investigating cross sex-typing as a possible correlate of creative thought and productive thinking, indicated that creative performance was associated with high masculine and low feminine interests. These findings support the idea that creativity and problem solving development are related to sex-role orientation.…

Preschool reading behavior did not arise necessarily or spontaneously in an open classroom where a set of books was continually available. Because the open classroom acquires new properties and meanings when contrasted with the traditional school, complex factors influencing behavior, such as novelty and modeling, must be examined. (BJG)

Discusses the cultural inhibitions on females and the traditional restraints imposed by society on the professional woman's flexibility of movement and her access to opportunity which in turn stifle creative scientific ability. Suggestions are made to encourage the emergence of scientific creativity on women. (BR)

Mathematical processes involve both rigorous logical thinking and creativity. The difficulty with the new math seems to lie with its apparent reliance on logic alone. It is important to stress intuition and guessing as well as deduction in order to make mathematics better understood. (SD)