The author stresses the importance of including foreign language in the education of gifted children. Bilingualism, the author asserts, aids the development of mental abilities which assist in using language creatively. (PHR)

Aspects of creativity and the relationship between creativity and values clarification are discussed. Creativity-oriented student behaviors (such as identifying problems that need to be solved or resolved) are identified and three ways in which values clarification enhances creativity are explored. (PHR)

The article discusses a model of personality characteristics associated with creative productivity in women, which was developed by C.B. Bruch and J.A. Morse, and its use as a diagnostic-prescriptive tool in freeing a woman's creative potential. (DLS)

The author discusses definitions of creativity through research and analogy and suggests that since some of mankind's most compelling needs underlie the creative process, a denial of those needs results in illness. Physiological and psychological reasons for the therapeutic nature of creative problem solving are considered. (CL)

This article developed out of a belief that our great hope of building a peaceful, brilliant world civilization, based upon the best that all the great cultures can offer, lies in the vast potentiality of creative ideas expressed in terms of a sane international policy under the leadership of the world's statesmen. (Author)

Examines the paradoxical characteristics of the creative person and attempts to define creativity. (Author/RK)

Religion in America has always existed as a method for achieving a desired moral purpose. Religion existing for its own sake as glorification of God through utilization of God-given senses, can, like art, lead to new perceptions of self and the world which cannot be born by being consciously created. (RW)

Asserts that appropriate responses to children's creative work arise from an awareness of, not only the presence of creativity, but also the stages of its growth and development. Presents example responses to children's work for each of the developmental stages: scribbles, line and shape, and semi-representational. (EV)

This article reinterprets the philosophy of Taoism and applies it to creativity. Taoistic cognition is described as intuition or personal knowledge. Taoistic creativity is explained as involving incubation, syntectic thinking, and the unification through opposites. Dialectical thinking, Taoistic meditation and intuition, and symbolic thinking are…

The phenomenon of creativity is so prevalent and yet so ill-defined. After examining several definitions, this author posits that creativity is a natural process in which humans use their physical, intellectual, emotional, moral, and spiritual resources to produce something new. Creativity seems to satisfy a deep fundamental yearning to go beyond…

Presents a strategy that enables students to: effectively reflect on the information they are learning; to identify scientific interconnections between individual facts and concepts; and to develop a system of conclusions. Explains that a concept network is a set of ideas and facts relating to a particular topic, with the linkages between facts…

Presents several ways to approach analogy instruction. Suggests that if teachers are to be truly accountable for student learning, they must encourage flexible, creative thinking that connects the known to the novel, that capitalizes on students' creativity and pattern-seeking and desire to make meaning. (SG)

Increases in life expectancy and living conditions are changing perceptions of traditional adult development. The Long Careers Study of 150 adults revealed three patterns of change: homesteaders who stayed in one career, transformers who made one major change, and explorers who changed careers frequently. (SK)

This supplementary insert discusses the differences between exceptionally gifted children and their more moderately gifted peers. Case studies are provided to illustrate the characteristics of exceptionally gifted children, including their tendencies toward fantasy and their ability to develop alternate realities. (CR)

The effects of reward and intrinsic motivation training on the creativity and self-esteem of 103 third graders were assessed. Creativity ratings revealed a main effect of reward and a marginally significant effect of intrinsic motivation training. Results were compared with earlier findings that intrinsic motivation training reverses the negative…