Techniques for teaching poetry are presented. (CK)

The article reviews the seven passages of the creative process--framing, probing, exploring, revealing, affirming, reframing, and realizing. Seven steps toward identifying ways to unblock the barriers to creative ability and creative release are outlined. (SW)

Investigates the correlation between creativity and good leadership. (Author/JM)

Discusses different manifestations of the impact of culture on creativity and reviews empirical studies. Makes the case that creative expression is a universal human phenomenon that is grounded in culture and has impact on culture itself. (SLD)

Expresses a view of creativity that posits that creativity is widely distributed, suggesting that nearly every individual has the mental capacity to construct the personal interpretations involved in creativity. Creativity is, then, something that can be found in every child. (SLD)

This paper reviews historical highlights of the imagery-creativity connection, including early and contemporary accounts, along with notable examples of imagery in the creative process. It also looks at cross-modal imagery (synesthesia), a model of image-based creativity and the creative process, and implications for strengthening creativity by…

Uses the thoughts and work of novelist John Irving to illustrate the prominence of non-talent components in the componential model of creativity, explaining that raw talent, clever imagination, and a creative personality are insufficient to ensure creative success and that hard work and love of a craft (intrinsic motivation) are at least as…

Illustrates how creativity is constituted by forces beyond the innovating individual, drawing examples from the career of chemist Linus Pauling that highlight the formative influence of the social field on an individual's relationship to the domain. Pauling's case reveals how variously the social field contributes to creativity, shaping the…

Describes the evolving systems approach (ESA) to creative work, which emerged from a case study of Charles Darwin. Explains how the ESA differs from other approaches and describes various facets of creative work (networks of enterprise, uniqueness, insight, pluralism, and evolving belief systems and ensembles of metaphor). Emphasizes the…

Discusses the role of creativity in the dialectical process of ideas, suggesting that all cultures, including cultures compromising fields of knowledge, generate a dialectical process in which: intelligence represents a thesis, advancing societal agendas; creativity represents an antithesis, questioning societal agendas and proposing new ones; and…

This articles provides a list of ideas for fun fundraising. Ideas include the following activities: putting together a spelling bee; holding a "pajama day"; "Taking frustration out on a balloon" activity; selling "finals week care packages for college students"; and selling "'goblin' insurance" activity (group offers services cleaning up after…

Creativity is a popular but heterogeneous word in educational parlance these days. By looking at a selection of recent discourses that refer to creativity to sustain their positions, the paper suggests that two key themes emerge, both with questionable assumptions. Romantic individualists would return us to a naive bygone age of authentic…

Today's college students, "digital natives," have had digital technology at their fingertips (Rushkoff, 1996; Prensky, 2001a). Technology habits and expectations of young people are changing; the educational and business worlds have placed a focus on skills called "21st century skills," to prepare students for the digital age (Lemke, 2002). Skills…

While public attention remains focused on the highest unemployment numbers in a generation, New York City is drifting toward a structural crisis with which policy makers could be grappling long after the recession fades to a bad memory. Even as the concerns about financial capital that spurred the downturn begin to subside, public officials must…