George Brown's "On the Teaching of English in Elementary and High Schools" is praised for its approach emphasizing the development of self-knowledge, self-control, feeling, and creativity through English instruction rather than simply passing on communication skills. (MSE)

Education is experiencing a loss of meaning and respect and a fading sense of connection. Education for the whole, individual person will result in the practical, creative, and moral growth necessary in today's society. (CJ)

Describes activities in which K-12 social studies students (1) imagine the consequences of decisions and policies, and (2) imagine the consequences of new personal and social possibilities. Sample activities are offered for geography, world history, sociology, U.S. history, and civics. The authors include suggestions for student evaluation and…

Ned Herrmann is interviewed regarding his latest theories on "applied creativity" and the design and delivery of "whole brain learning." He discusses the roles of the brain's two hemispheres, the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument, the importance of brain dominance to trainers, and the link between creativity and productivity.…

The investigation concerned the construction of a test of musical creativity that would assess the hypothesized divergent production abilities of music fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, and quality in school instrumental music students. The developed test, measures of musical divergent production (MMDP), was based on models of…

Few programs in the field of recreation attempt to integrate older adults into recreational activities with younger age groups. The benefits accrued from this intergenerational approach include: (1) shared experiences which help combat stereotypical thinking; (2) learning an holistic approach to life; and (3) cooperation between youth-related and…

Describes a four-week college history unit on Hiroshima designed to stimulate creativity and imagination in a large class. Activities included readings, films, short essays, and dramatizations and emphasized a multisided approach. (CK)

Five different perspectives on creativity in teaching are examined: (1) Creativity is developed by making teaching methods from almost nothing. (2) Creativity is fostered by idealizing without constraint. (3) Creativity can be developed through analogs. (4) Creativity can mean to reorganize or modify. (5) Creativity can be fostered using a forced…

Four articles consider brain hemisphere functioning of gifted students as it relates to gifted programs; alternation of education methodologies; spatial ability as an element of intellectual gifted functioning; and the interaction between hemisphere specialization, imagery, creative imagination, and sex differentiation. (SB)

Recommends that teachers look for and value the freshness, naivete, humor, and wisdom in children's writing. Samples of children's writing are provided to illustrate these traits. (AEA)

The author argues that American art education has long been misled by its reliance on Lowenfeld's theory that creativity is the ultimate good and that children are innately creative. She proposes a more structured and technical approach to art education, based on developmental research with children and art. (SJL)

Although restorative psychotherapy is primarily curative, counseling is largely an educative and growth-oriented activity. Successful coping requires continual adaptation to the array of changing environments and life roles. The balance between thought and emotion is important for personal effectiveness as well as for creative productivity.…

The author suggests that the preconscious is the true locus of significant prose because of its greater amount of freedom to gather, compare, and rearrange ideas, and that the ultimate challenge to teachers of composition is to give freedom to their students' preconscious processes. (KC)

Identifies four strategies used to communicate experiences that are beyond expression: silence, qualified expression, poetic expression, and antiexpression. Maintains that, although these strategies violate normal expectations of efficient message transactions, they occasionally succeed remarkably in communicating understanding and thus present a…

This review on education for the artistically gifted considers trends in student identification, curriculum, and program evaluation over the period 1924-1980. (SJL)