Describes a four-week college history unit on Hiroshima designed to stimulate creativity and imagination in a large class. Activities included readings, films, short essays, and dramatizations and emphasized a multisided approach. (CK)

Five different perspectives on creativity in teaching are examined: (1) Creativity is developed by making teaching methods from almost nothing. (2) Creativity is fostered by idealizing without constraint. (3) Creativity can be developed through analogs. (4) Creativity can mean to reorganize or modify. (5) Creativity can be fostered using a forced…

Four articles consider brain hemisphere functioning of gifted students as it relates to gifted programs; alternation of education methodologies; spatial ability as an element of intellectual gifted functioning; and the interaction between hemisphere specialization, imagery, creative imagination, and sex differentiation. (SB)

Recommends that teachers look for and value the freshness, naivete, humor, and wisdom in children's writing. Samples of children's writing are provided to illustrate these traits. (AEA)

The author argues that American art education has long been misled by its reliance on Lowenfeld's theory that creativity is the ultimate good and that children are innately creative. She proposes a more structured and technical approach to art education, based on developmental research with children and art. (SJL)

Although restorative psychotherapy is primarily curative, counseling is largely an educative and growth-oriented activity. Successful coping requires continual adaptation to the array of changing environments and life roles. The balance between thought and emotion is important for personal effectiveness as well as for creative productivity.…

The author suggests that the preconscious is the true locus of significant prose because of its greater amount of freedom to gather, compare, and rearrange ideas, and that the ultimate challenge to teachers of composition is to give freedom to their students' preconscious processes. (KC)

Identifies four strategies used to communicate experiences that are beyond expression: silence, qualified expression, poetic expression, and antiexpression. Maintains that, although these strategies violate normal expectations of efficient message transactions, they occasionally succeed remarkably in communicating understanding and thus present a…

This review on education for the artistically gifted considers trends in student identification, curriculum, and program evaluation over the period 1924-1980. (SJL)

Presents sample findings from the 1960 national survey of 400,000 high school students. The survey tested reading comprehension, creativity, arithmetic reasoning, and arithmetic computation. Reviews efforts, stemming from the test findings, to improve students' educational programs. (CSS)

The hypothesis that the more creative teachers would have a teaching style which favors creativity and would be more humanistic in their pupil control orientation in comparison to low creative teachers was tested with 60 secondary-level teacher educators from India. (Author)

The program utilizes the gifted extension model, which is composed of four sections: (1) content, which is divided into the areas of knowledge, skills, and attitudes; (2) process, which consists of decision making, creativity, and cognition; (3) output, in which students learn problem solving skills; and (4) evaluation, in which the gifted student…

Intended for researchers, teachers, and administrators, this bibliography covers much of the literature concerned with visual art education and samples materials from the related areas of visual perception, creativity, art therapy, leisure research, and space planning. (Author/SJL)

In a study of style of learning and thinking (hemisphericity) as it relates to scores on creativity tests, 28 graduate students were studied. (Author/PHR)

Two studies involving 60 graduate and undergraduate students explored the role of structured imagination in story creation. Results indicate representational knowledge was an important influence on story meaning and originality and that meaningful and original stories were more likely to contain abstract concepts than were nonmeaningful and…