Three educational leaders--Robert Quackenbush, Geraldine Siks, and David A. Sohn--offer reflections on recent developments regarding activities that stimulate children's creativity, their hopes for the 1980s, and recommended books for teachers. (AEA)

General developmental stage theory itself is briefly summarized, and the literature is reviewed. Suitable modifications of developmental stage theory for gifted children are briefly considered. Three paramount developmental issues for educators of the gifted are examined. (DLS)

Suggestions are provided for including writing from personal experience as a part of the school's curriculum. The philosophy is that experience in the real world provides motivation for writing. (KC)

The study was undertaken to determine if motor creativity scores were significantly different from normative data of hearing peers and if guided movement exploration using the I CAN associated action words could improve the motor creativity of 24 deaf children (ages 3 to 5). (Author/PHR)

It was found that high achievers (HAs) in comparison with low achievers (LAs) tended to be more field independent, more creative in divergent production tasks, and more interested in academic achievement. (DLS)

Recreation programs should provide experiences which feed and care for the indispensable human impulse to play. Campus recreation programs need to tinker with traditional formats and provide program alternatives. (CJ)

Instructing the physically handicapped technical education student in the use of adaptive equipment (AE), such as Braille computers, involves four steps: keeping a current file of access to AE, insuring proper education in the use of AE, encouraging student creativity, and evaluating the equipment to recommend changes and adaptations. (CT)

Suggests that future pedagogy should search for methods to develop conscious thinking and to connect detailed learning with creative, utility-oriented human activities. Different pedagogical forms should be applied to a greater extent in universities and ordinary adult education. (JOW)

The author discusses preliminary findings from a 22 year follow-up of adolescent and adult creative behavior of 220 persons from the original elementary student sample. Having a childhood future career image that persisted and having a mentor were consistently related to five criteria of creative achievement. (CL)

Three hundred and fifty-five male biologists drawn from American Men and Women of Science, supplied information about their predoctoral experiences and accomplishments. It was concluded that potentially highly creative biologists can often be identified by predoctoral accomplishments and experiences at the graduate school level. (Author/GK)

Explains how to use the techniques of interviewing to motivate older adults in a writing workshop. (FL)

Describes two lines of theory and research--the psychology of personal constructs and the study of creativity as an associative process--that can be brought to converge productively on the general problem of creative communication as an interpersonal cognitive activity. (GT)

To study the effects of guided fantasy on the creative thinking of students, 51 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade students were assigned to one of two groups (relaxation techniques and guided fantasy or an arithmetic lesson). (PHR)

Future training programs for English teachers should demand that teachers possess acceptance and openness, creativity, and cognitive organization. (DD)