Schools can promote creative thinking by focusing on aesthetics, purpose, mobility, objectivity, and intrinsic motivation and by encouraging students to work at the edge of their competence. All elements of knowledge can be presented as the products of design, involving purpose, structure, model cases, and arguments. (TE)

Discusses an inservice program designed to help teachers make friends with their creative selves. (Editor/RK)

Eliciting creativity in every student in the classroom can be a realistic goal for classroom teachers. Teaching creatively can include: embracing a student-centered learning approach; using thematic approaches to content area subjects, which also promotes motivation; using a cooperative learning group process; and utilizing creative arts.…

Measures to promote divergent thinking or creativity in children are discussed; teachers must understand the creative process and develop corresponding teaching methods and curriculum. (Author)

Statistical findings based on some 200 research measurements made over a two-year period on students in a four semester program in Creative Studies at Buffalo State University College. (CB)

Author stresses the need for greater inclusion of the arts in a university curriculum and suggests an outline for making universities into creative enterprises. (RK)

Article deals with the concept of civilization mainly as expressed in Toynbee's A Study of History." (Editor/MB)

Author discusses the importance and challenges of aesthetic education. (MB)

Man does several things with the arts: He observes them, he executes what someone else has created, and he philosophizes about them. (JB)