Business has many reasons for assisting the arts and numerous ways of doing so. (CK)

Edited version of a paper presented in the Education and Creativity Symposium at the congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (Adelaide, South Australia, August 1969). (Editor/SW)

The child's creative potential may be fostered in the classroom by (1) story-telling, (2) expressing interest in the child's attempts to write stories and poetry, (3) allowing freedom and time for the child's creative efforts and (4) helping the child to associate creative effort with pleasure. (NH)

A 2-year experiment with Hungarian kindergarteners concluded that handicraft activity which evolved out of play experiences had the most positive effects on different kinds of children. (JF)

Development of intelligence and the imagination and provision of opportunities for purposeful investment of human talent through a liberal arts education may be the key to dealing with young people's boredom, which is an internal problem rather than an environmental one. (Author/MJL)

Gifted students can increase skills in a wide variety of areas by making slide tape presentations. The activity, both process and product oriented, includes steps of selecting a topic, writing a script, developing graphics, taking pictures for slides, developing audio, selecting music, and integrating the slides with the audio. (CL)

Teachers of foreign language can use B. Bloom's taxonomy to present challenges to gifted students while still ensuring understanding of the basics. Basic skills would be followed by exploration in application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Examples of activities in each of the four areas are presented. (CL)

"Ideas Into Dollars," one in the Small Business Bibliography series of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), is described to be a resource guide for inventors and innovative small businesses which provides steps such as determination of technical feasibility, assessment of market demand, commercialization, and sales. (MC)

To investigate the extent to which free play versus a sequenced questioning paradigm facilitated preschoolers' associative fluency, 36 children were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: free play, questioning, or control, and asked to articulate novel uses for conventional objects. Responses in the questioning condition were significantly…

A grass roots effort led to the first state-sponsored contest for invention and innovation for children. (Author)

This review draws from diverse literatures to synthesize what is known about the relationships between family variables and creativity in children. Family background and the effects of parental attitudes and behaviors on children's creativity are explored. (Author/BEF)