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Table of Contents:

• Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Part I: Understanding Creative People and Processes; 1 What Is Creativity?; Really, Why Bother?; We Need Creativity for Learning; We Need Creativity for Motivation; We Need Creativity for Joy; In Case There's Any Doubt: We Need Creativity for Everybody; Getting Started: Defining Creativity; Definitions of Creativity; Levels and Domains of Creativity; Why Do People Create?; Teaching for Creativity Versus Creative Teaching; Authentic Problems and Processes; Teaching for Creativity in a Time of Standards; Is Creativity Really Good for Us?
• And Do We Really Want It?Structure of the Book; 2 Models of the Creative Process; The Creative Process; Dewey and Wallas: To Incubate or Not to Incubate; The Osborn-Parnes Model; Problem Finding; The Nature of Problems; Research Describing Problem Finding; Creativity Across Cultures; 3 Theories of Creativity: The Individual; Early Views; Psychoanalytic Theories; Early Psychoanalysts; Contemporary Psychoanalysts; Behaviorist Theories; Humanist Theories; Development of Creativity and Social Interactions; Creativity, Intelligence, and Cognition; Guilford's Structure of the Intellect.
• Perkins, Weisberg, and Myth BustingCreative Cognition; The Ultimate Mechanics: Creativity and Computers; Creativity and Neuroscience; 4 Theories of Creativity: Systems in Context; Systems Approaches; Creativity, Culture, and Csikszentmihalyi; Feldman: Defender of Insight; An Investment Model and Thoughts About Wisdom; Gruber's Evolving Systems; Simonton and an Evolutionary Model; Amabile, Motivation, and a Model of Creativity; Systems Continue and a Model for the Classroom; Creativity, Collaboration, and Organizations; Creative Collaborations; Organizational Creativity.
• Patterns, Questions, and Issues5 Creative People; Characteristics Associated With Creativity; Creativity and Intelligence; The IPAR Studies: In Search of Human Effectiveness; Characteristics of Creativity and "Messy Minds"; Creativity and Complexity; Creativity and Mental Illness; Biographical Traits: Learning From Life Stories; Biographies of Eminent Creators; Creativity and Multicultural Experiences; Creativity and Talent Development: What Do Teachers Do?; Disciplinary, Gender, and Cultural Differences; Play, Curiosity, and Creative Children; Play, Playfulness, and Creativity; Curiosity.
• Research on Creative Young PeopleCreative Activities and Misidentification; Part II: Creativity and Classroom Life; 6 Teaching Creative Thinking Skills and Habits; Three Keys to Creativity in the Classroom; Tools for Creative Thinking; Problem Finding; Students as Questioners; Question Formulation Technique (QFT); A More Beautiful Question; Questioning Habits of Mind; Divergent-Thinking Strategies; Brainstorming; SCAMPER; Attribute Listing; Morphological Synthesis; Random Input and Other Techniques of Lateral Thinking; Using Divergent Thinking in Creative Problem Solving.

Author/Creator:

Starko, Alane J.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Creativity in the Classroom: Schools of Curious Delight [by Starko, A.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Creativity in the Classroom : Schools of Curious Delight [by Starko, A.J.] (Milton : Taylor and Francis, ©2017 — ISBN 9781138228825)

Subjects:

Creative thinking

General Notes:

Description based on: Print version record.
Understanding the Challenge.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

LB1062 .S77 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781315391618
1315391619
1138228826 [Invalid]
9781138228825 [Invalid]
1138228818 [Invalid]
9781138228818 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1004614011