This essay is concerned with the revolutionary changes, both conscious and otherwise, in art values and functions that have been generated by the democratization of art education. The development of art education is considered from this perspective with particular focus on the areas of conflict. (Editor/RK)

By using complex multiple regression models to generate regression surfaces, the relationships between academic achievement, creativity, and intelligence are examined. Findings indicate that for certain academic subjects creativity is related to achievement up to a threshold level of intelligence, but after the threshold has been reached…

Gives teaching goals, necessary conditions and preparatory possibilities for guided original performance by pupils in foreign language classes. Using as an example collages made by the pupils themselves, the working procedure is described which formed the basis for the experiments in original written composition. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A series of maps is presented for coloring with the fewest possible colors. (SD)

It is explained how schools may become involved in the Poets-in-Schools program.

The puritan ethic that any work is good and any idleness bad is still very active in our schools. Many teachers and parents resist the idea that schoolwork needn't be overly difficult and joyless. (SJL)

Traces the denigration of discursive prose back through the "New Criticism" to Romanticism and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who saw poetry as special and separate from other rhetoric. Notes that discursive prose can be just as creative and interesting as poetry. Urges composition teachers to shift their point of view accordingly. (RL)

Discusses the use of "creativity seminars" for releasing the creative senses necessary to language learning. (AM)

Three methods of assessing gender differences in the social behavior of children were compared and a wide range of behaviors were used to match what individual boys and girls are observed to do in a natural environment against what they are expected to do. Subjects were 72 kindergarten children from New Zealand. (MP)

Two samples of verbally gifted adolescents were tested using cognitive and personality measures. Although both groups were found to be unusually mature and well adjusted, they varied considerably in sociopolitical intelligence--the ability to formulate viable solutions to moral, social, and political problems. (Author/MV)

Described are the development and field testing of measures of creativity, thinking skills are research for academically talented elementary school students. (CL)

Creativity, intelligence, and problem-solving tasks that varied in the explicitness of problem definition and in the format for an acceptable solution were administered to 100 college students. Two hypotheses that distinguished between concepts of creative and intelligent problem-solving were presented, and syntactical and strategic distinctions…

Reassessment of 120 college females' creativity after the subjects observed others of varying creative ability showed both predicted increases and predicted decreases in subjects' component verbal creativity scores. (RL)

Provides a portrait of the young gifted child, together with issues related to identification and educational programming for these young children. (Author/RK)