A description of a creativity workshop conducted for teacher interns at the University of Georgia. (HB)

Three conceptualizations of creativity, including a mental abilities approach, an ego-analytic levels analysis approach, and an attitudinal self-concept approach, were each translated into sets of self-statements which could be modeled and rehearsed. Subjects' self-reports indicated they felt more creative but this was not reflected in…

Several studies were conducted where subjects were not instructed to imitate models. Subjects viewing models exhibiting complex, flexible, divergent, or creative behavior tended to increase this behavior, while subjects watching rigid or convergent thinking models were less consistent. (Author/BJG)

Argues that compositions teachers need to develop an epistemology--as pragmatic as is possible--which asks how the composing process is an act of knowing. (R B)

Reprinted from "Studies in Adolescence II by Robert Grinder (Macmillan Company, 1969).

Chapter 6 in Life Skills in School and Society

TYPES OF INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA WHICH CAN ENCOURAGE CREATIVE BEHAVIOR ARE PRESENTED. AT CERTAIN GRADE LEVELS THERE ARE DISCONTINUITIES IN CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT ACCOMPANIED BY LOSS OF INTEREST IN LEARNING. SOME DISCONTINUITIES CAN BE DECREASED OR ELIMINATED BY GUIDED, PLANNED EXPERIENCES IN CREATIVE THINKING. THESE IN TURN CAN BE TRANSLATED INTO…