Each spring, the Friends of the Library of the University of Waterloo Library invite the campus community to join in an event celebrating the creative process. The event reflects the day-to-day work of the library staff: bringing together information from a diverse range of disciplines for the purpose of creating new knowledge. This book includes…

This book begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive, and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. In between, the book illuminates the nature of originality, translation, the…

This paper presents the position of the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) regarding children's right to creative thought and expression. The position statement begins with a comparison of creativity in children and in adults, asserting that children have the right to creative development and that opportunities for creative…

Disciplines such as multimedia, 3-D animation, and video depend on a merging of creativity and technology, and students' classroom and job market success in these fields also depends on their ability to synthesize artistic and technological expertise. Today's students are well-versed in computer use, and often this facility causes them to be…

Relates the processes involved in Story Workshop from both the student's and the director's point of view. (TO)

Presents eight readers' letters and one editor's reply in which discussions are related to effects of zero-population growth on scientific creativity, employment crisis of industrial physicists, efficiency of ionic pumps, and the naming system of laws and effects in physics. (CC)

This study was undertaken by the investigator with the belief that there is, at the present, an urgent need for a course in creativity for pre-service and in-service teachers. (Author/RK)

Presents research results, teaching models, and instructional materials aimed at developing creativity in students. (RB)

Article queried parents, teachers and students as to their choice of the ideal behavior for children. (RK)

A theory put forward by Reginald Archambault is that moral education can be fostered through the study of other subjects - he suggested history and literature. Article examined this theory in relation to art. (Author/RK)

Tests a feedback system designed to improve the originality of the writing of elementary school children. (RB)

Believing that the human condition is intrinsically bound with the aesthetic experience of man, and that composition in its many art forms is very much a part of a child's life, the author urges teachers to search for and find ways of providing children with opportunities that call on their idiosyncratic and aesthetic use of the written word.…

A teacher/actor produces plays which are meaningful socially or personally and are suitable for children of various ages. Teachers and students see the plays and are taught drama by the itinerant teacher/actor. (ST)

Author suggests that variations in the functioning of imagination result in variations in mental aptitudes and expressions and expressions, and these variations serve as a guide, according to which the scope of an individual mind may be recognized. (Author/RK)

Article is concerned with the education of the filmaker and describes the effect the Center for Advanced Film Studies can have. (RK)