Queerness, form and time: A dialogue through case studies from creative writing practice

Fostering Creative Thinking through Philosophy-based Dialogue Skills for Children

Introdction: Philosophy can be used as a way to cultivate moral thinking, critical thinking, and creative thinking. The aim of the present study is to investigate the development of creative thinking through philosophybased dialogue skills for children. Methods: This Review article has been performed using creative thinking, conversation skills, and philosophy for children keywords in variou...

Creative Industries: Case Studies from Arab Countries

The paper describes and explains empirically the economic performance of four key creative industries (the book publishing, music sound recording, film production and software industries) in five Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon). Using the Porter (Diamond) model as its theoretical background, a survey was conducted in the years 2002-03 among 242 experts, covering fir...

Task-Based Creative Writing through Visual Advertisement: A Change of Attitude

Almost little is known about creative writing. In this research, creative writing has been introduced as an alternative to academic writing. The aims were to introduce creative writing as an alternative to academic writing to boost the participants’ attitude towards writing in general. The participants were 32 senior university students studying English Translation at Islamic Azad University, T...

Collaborative Writing Practice through Online Learning: Insights from Iranian EFL Learners’ Perceptions

This study investigates the benefits of e-collaborative and collaborative writing tasks on the perception of Iranian EFL learners in a process-oriented approach. The study involved 74 intermediate Iranian EFL students at Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch. They were divided into three groups by random assignment as two experimental groups and one control group. The experimental groups were...

Improvisation as a Creative Dialogue