Musical creativity can be enhanced in children of all ages through an interdisciplinary approach involving activities combining music with history, geography, mythology, foreign language, biography, psychology and literature. (DB)

Kindergarten children were randomly assigned: free play, make-believe, imitation, and control. Given an alternate-uses test (paper towel, match box, paper clip, and screwdriver), free play and make-believe subjects produced significantly more nonstandard responses for paper clip than control subjects and make-believe subjects more than free play…

This paper is an attempt to build a theoretical model which specifies the impact of certain cognitive variables on the process of political socialization. (Author)

Confronts questions raised about the Montessori method concerning socialization, creativity, permissiveness, and emotional development. (MS)

Concludes that writing fiction and stressing subjective reaction and personal experience are positive approaches in remedial writing courses. (DD)

Describes an assignment for an argumentation paper which helps students define their own position on controversial topics. (DD)

Gifted students should receive reading instruction to encourage them to read more widely, more critically, and more creatively. (DD)

Presents brief descriptions of the ten high school and college newspapers that won the 1976 Pacemaker Awards for journalistic excellence and creative presentation. (GW)

Discusses how teachers have erred on one side to teach the basics of sentence structure, usage, grammar, and spelling and have neglected the other primary basic, creativity. (MB)

A new translation of the French poet's most famous essay in which he discusses his creative process and aesthetic views. (JG)

This study explored relationships between environmental factors (era, standard of living, freedom, and value) and the growth of Chinese literary genius. Using a new measure, the Chinese Creator Rating Scale, the study found that historical top scorers had above average values on the four environmental factors, supporting the humanistic theory of…

Suggests that excellent writing results when writers achieve oneness with their subject, and that students can achieve this oneness only when allowed freedom to discover their own subjects. (ARH)

The early training of children in divergent thinking skills can help foster entrepreneurship. Such training would include activities to develop natural creativity, activities allowing children to win, activities which accept different solutions, teachers who recognize and encourage creative children, and an understanding of basic business…

Analyzes an illustration for an old Chinese riddle tale drawn by Peter Sis for "Stories to Solve: Folktales around the World." (NKA)