The document contains 13 selected papers from a conference on working with gifted students. Titles and authors include the following: "A Metacurriculum for the Future" (B. Hubbard); "Building a Curriculum to Train Leadership Abilities" (L. Addison); "Gifted Boys, Gifted Girls--What's the Difference" (B. Becker);…

This research involved the observation and audio-recording of 30 ninth-grade mathematics students recommended as being outstanding by their mathematics teachers. Each student was presented with five different problem situations for which he or she was to make mathematical conjectures. During the interview, the students thought aloud and all of…

The theme of the seventh yearbook of the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science (AETS) involves the relationship of psychology of teaching thinking and creativity as this activity is performed in a science education context. Eleven chapters follow a foreword by Jean Piaget and the reproduction of Part I of "The Central Purpose of…

THE AUTHOR PRESENTS A PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION THAT IS BASED ON THE CONCEPT THAT EDUCATION SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON DEVELOPING THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT RATHER THAN ON IMPARTING KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS. EDUCATION FOR INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT WAS DESCRIBED AS A PROGRAM CONSCIOUSLY UNDERTAKEN TO PROMOTE AN IDENTITY BASED ON SUCH QUALITIES AS FLEXIBILITY,…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF DEWEY'S EXPERIMENTALISM TO CREATIVITY, SCHOOL ATTITUDE, AND SOCIOMETRIC STATUS WAS STUDIED. DURING PHASE ONE, FOURTH-SIXTH GRADE TEACHERS (141) WERE ADMINISTERED THE EXPERIMENTALISM SCALE. A TRUNCATION WAS APPLIED AT EACH END OF THE TEACHERS' SCORE CONTINUUM ON THE BASIS OF A T-TEST. DURING PHASE TWO, PUPILS TAUGHT BY THE…

A series of strategies called the "Synectics Model," can be used by teachers in helping students to break away from usual thought patterns and to make new connections. Its purpose is to increase creativity and to produce lateral thinking. The activities employed involve the use of metaphor. Examples of the model are provided that were…

This document contains the abstracts of papers and communiques contributed by the participants of the 1977 World Congress on Preschool Education (OMEP). The abstracts are organized into six sections: (1) rights and duties of the family, (2) child's right to health preservation and all-round development, (3) system of care and education for the…

REPORTED ARE THE RESULTS OF SEVERAL RELATED STUDIES SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA). THESE STUDIES ATTEMPTED TO (1) DETERMINE THOSE CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENTISTS WHICH ARE VALID IN DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN SCIENTISTS OF HIGH AND LOW LEVEL PRODUCTIVITY AND CREATIVITY, AND (2) UTILIZE THESE CHARACTERISTICS IN…

Environmental and outdoor education projects organized under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 are described. This 1967 National listing provides information by state, such as title, director, project synopsis, number of school districts served, area coverage, total population figures, and student population figures.…

The Research Division for the Center for Creative Leadership is committed to staying abreast of research on leadership and to developing new research approaches to that topic. This paper examines some of the problems with the accumulated research on leadership, reviews some studies of managerial work that stimulate new ways of thinking about…

This study attempted to understand and define the concepts of creativity and self-actualization and to ascertain, first, if creative people are highly self-actualized, and second, if self-actualized people are highly creative. Four tests (Personal Orientation Inventory, Torrence Tests of Creative Thinking, Similes Preference Inventory, Lafferty's…

The purpose of this study was to determine the scores of children's ideas for creative writing when given freedom of choice of topic, and to determine if those children who expressed ideas reportedly original to them were more or less creative than the others. The subjects, selected from grades 2, 4, and 6, were a stratified random sample…

This book discusses censorship and sex through the ages. The 15 chapters focus on the following topics: (1) the bases of censorship; (2) the concept of taboo; (3) the role of words in the control of people's thought; (4) Hellenism, stoicism, and censorship; (5) the Judeo-Christian influence; (6) the puritan and the censor; (7) religion and…

Elementary and secondary teachers can nurture creativity in the classroom through the selection and development of curriculum content and through interpersonal dialogue between teacher and student. The celebration of the Bicentennial provides an opportunity for the incorporation of related resources such as films, recordings, readings, prose and…

The accountability system was designed in part to link practice and theory more closely, but educators in the humanities point out that neither everyday experienced nor the affective domain can be accountable in such an explicity system. In the humanities, especially, there is another way of knowing -- unpredictable, unique, often capricious --…