The author describes events in her children's lives which illustrate their growth through curiosity and the ways in which parents can nurture a child's innate curiosity. (ED)

A discussion of how educators have neglected to consider the creative aspects of producing instructional media. (HB)

Argues that handwriting skills are important to reading improvement because as a child reads his own writing, thoughts, insights, and ideas of his own and others are explored. (RB)

Author attempted to present a reasonable description of the film, Easy Street, with major antics numbered, then analyzed those in terms of Duncker and Koestler, thereby extending the latter's theory of bisociation. (Author/RK)

Author expanded on a study, "A Comparative Analysis of Creative and Intelligent Behavior of Elementary School Children with Different Socio-Economic Backgrounds" by reanalyzing the same data. (RK)

Argues that instruction in English should emphasize the creative and imaginative use of language. (RB)

One of the major problems in advertising courses is that students are expected to generate original, exciting advertising ideas, but often are not taught how to go about the process. Idea generation techniques can help students generate quantities of creative ideas more quickly and fluently. By looking at ads and recreating the workings of the…

The study was conducted to examine the relationship between hypermnesia (spontaneous recovery of previously unretrievable information without access to retrieval cues) for concrete and abstract words and creative thinking abilities in two groups of 30 undergraduates each. Ss were asked either to form an image or to construct a meaningful sentence…

This ERIC Digest explores factors that affect creativity in children and techniques for fostering this quality. The need to study creativity and the definition of creativity within a developmental framework are also discussed. Six ways adults can encourage children's creativity are listed. It is pointed out that adults can encourage creativity by…

Creativity research has traditionally regarded the creative process as involving a full or partial regression of the ego to a more primitive state of consciousness. An alternative interpretation involves an ego-syntonic concept. This developmental model of ego-syntonic play and its role in creativity is derived from a synergistic combination of…

While there is increasing evidence that creativity can be improved through training, the spacing of the training has not been studied. This study assessed the effect of spaced training on the use of creative imagination in 110 undergraduate students. The research design was a randomized delayed posttest-only design. The independent variable was…

Providing for original and creative thinking by geometry students is discussed. Techniques for discovering theorems are suggested, and examples of places in geometry where these methods can be used are given. (DT)

Current discussions of plagiarism in the university have taken something of a criminological turn. At the same time, there is a tendency to focus on technological solutions. Against these trends, we argue that plagiarism remains, fundamentally, a philosophical and pedagogical issue for universities, related to understanding the meaning of…