"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript contains discussions with Bruno Bettelheim on the importance of fairy tales for children, with Frank Williams on tensions in children when they try to create, and with Donald Bigelow on "Loudmouse" by Richard…

The author examines three teaching methodologies (repetitive, conceptual, and creative) and concludes that teaching should produce in students a balance of specific, convergent, and divergent thinking. If industrial arts educators limit teaching to known and accepted practices, programs and opportunities for young people are limited. (LH)

Discusses books which will help satisfy the curiosity of children, ages 4-14, concerning, themselves, the natural world, people and places, machines, facts and proof, ideals, the social world, creative experiences, the world of imagination, and the supernatural. (ED)

A partial transcript of a radio interview with Eda LeShan concerning her perceptions of the current state of children's education and how it might be improved. (BRT)

Shifting emphasis from the finished paper to the process of composition can result in better, more honest student writing.

Describes an entertaining approach to use in stimulating creative thinking in elementary science. (JMB)

Lists and discusses factors that contribute to creativity theory, such as analogy, archetypes, symbols, conditions that foster creativity, and syntactic fluency. (RL)

A questionnaire for focusing college student attention upon the subtleties implicit in a three-dimensional model of creativity is presented. (BD)

Discusses the societal roles, perceptions, and methods of both the artist and the scientist. Contends that both combine elements of experience whose interrelationship is not perceived by anyone else; thus both are required for survival, since the syntheses of their compositions provide new insights into reality. Journal availability: see SO 506…

Examines the objectives of a 16-week course on how a professor can determine the degree to which traits of creativity have been developed in students. Also tests for creative thinking are evaluated. (Author/RK)

Recommends that students be required to write poems in elementary French classes according to prescribed linguistic rules. The recommendation is justified from pedagogical, literary and linguistic perspectives. (MLA)

Reports a significant correlation between the development of genius and parental loss. (SL)

While the elements of enjoyment, creativity, and pleasure are present in the learning process, education is basically work, and despite its joyful aspects, it is sometimes drudgery. (JD)

Two Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ) scales, Creativity and Independence were validated by experiment. Subjects (N=68) were exposed to four task conditions representing joint combinations of high or low levels of Creativity and Independence. The behavioral results were consistent with the subjects' MIQ score levels on the two scales,…

Two groups of children seen by the Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children because of school difficulties were compared on tests for brain dysfunction, verbal intelligence, creativity, and mental health to find whether the group diagnosed as hyperkinetic and taking drug medication (N=47, average age=10.6 years) differed significantly from the…