Largely as a result of the extensive work carried out during the past decade, the concept of creativity has become increasingly important in educational and psychological thinking. This monography attempts to impose a framework within which to describe the main varieties of research on creativity. The monograph includes the following areas as…

A study involving eight mentally retarded, multiply handicapped preschool children was conducted to determine whether atypical retarded children could develop their visual spatial and creative expressions to a level which exceeded their deficient curricular level. A base line level of creative ability was obtained for each S and college students…

This literature review on creativity covers 92 references dating from 1906 to 1966. It is one of a series on topics pertinent to vocational, technical, and practical arts education. Major units of the review are Defining Creativity, Measuring Creativity, Creativity and Intelligence, Characteristics of the Creative Individual, Teaching and…

The first purposes of this project were to develop a new measure of Creative Problem-Solving (Improving Research Testing) and to develop new scoring criteria for the College Situations Problems. In addition, evidence concerning the reliability and validity of nine new variables derived from these two measures was examined. Adequate levels of…

This study designed an instrument which would illuminate that atmosphere which is most favorable to the creative process. Analysis of classroom verbal interaction was executed from tape recordings of 44 science sessions, representing 11 fifth grade science classes from five widely separated and diversified schools in the Houston area. A 42-item…

It is especially critical within reading programs during the years of middle childhood to identify and to nurture qualities of giftedness: open-mindedness, motivation, tolerance for uncertainty, preference for complexity, high regard for learning, sense of destiny, and the search for meaning. Supporting this view, the work of Frank Smith, Goodman,…

This nationwide study was concerned with the relation of personality traits, classroom behavior, and student-teacher relationships to creativity in college teaching. Creative teachers were identified by Ph.D. students who had studied under the teachers and who nominated them as having had the most facilitating effect on their creative development,…

Examines some of the individual works of Leon Garfield. (HOD)

Suggests through historical examination that memory, primarily linked with the imagination as a constructive and creative factor, is an important element in art training. (Author/RK)

Attempts to identify many stigmatized groups of people in our society, who have been classified, judged, and dealt with, through institutionalization. These groups have not been able to articulate their rights and art educators should move toward alternate and perhaps broader conceptual bases for art education in relating to stigmatized persons.…

When a person is consciously choosing to actualize his inner potentials he has actively taken direct hand in maintaining his health. (JD)

A brief review of educational history in America leads up to a Bicentennial reflection that the task of educators is to release children's intellectual capacity through language, creativity, and democratic living. (MM)

Discusses historical, technological, developmental, and educational aspects of nonverbal thought. (SL)

A creative leadership development program was designed to provide 10 Black and Indian college administrators with knowledge and techniques from the behavioral sciences for the purpose of augmenting their creative leadership skills. (SBH)