Teaching for creativity is an approach to teaching that promotes students' independent thinking and creative abilities, "encouraging individuals to construct understandings that are new to them" (Peter Knight, Higher Education Academy website below). The following links offer insights into classroom environments that encourage creativity, present examples of teaching for creativity, and provide...

Teaching for creativity is an approach to teaching that promotes students' independent thinking and creative abilities, "encouraging individuals to construct understandings that are new to them" (Peter Knight, Higher Education Academy website below). The following links offer insights into classroom environments that encourage creativity, present examples of teaching for creativity, and provide...

Teaching for creativity is an approach to teaching that promotes students' independent thinking and creative abilities, "encouraging individuals to construct understandings that are new to them" (Peter Knight, Higher Education Academy website below). The following links offer insights into classroom environments that encourage creativity, present examples of teaching for creativity, and provide...

Creativity has been putatively linked to distinct forms of attention, but which aspects of creativity and which components of attention remains unclear. Two experiments examined how divergent thinking and creative achievement relate to visual attention. In both experiments, participants identified target letters (S or H) within hierarchical stimuli (global letters made of local letters), after ...

Based on work with their students, the authors have created and developed what they refer to as the outcomepresent state test (OPT) model of clinical reasoning. They claim this model supports the application of critical and creative thinking. With any model of critical thinking, reflection is an integral part of the process. The authors, over a series of chapters, try to define thinking strateg...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to outline ways in which the large body of empirical work on creativity can meaningfully inform negotiation. In doing so, two general streams of creativity research and their implications for negotiation theory and empirical analysis are considered. Negotiation pundits advise that negotiators should engage in creative problem-solving to craft integrative...

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Although previous research provides converging evidence for the role of posterior regions of the brain (including temporal, occipital, and parietal regions) involved in inhibition on creative thinking, it remains unclear as to how these regions influence individual differences in creative thinking. Thus, we explored the relationship between posterior regions (i.e., hippocampal, parahippocampal,...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among creativity, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation and creative home environment. For this study there were 127 young children subjects under age five from 10 kindergarten classes. Data gathered were analyzed for the verification of the hypothesis of this subject for using SPSS 18.0 program. The results of this study were as follows: F...

Background and Objectives: Studies investigating life skills and general health have mainly focused on some skills or parts of health. In this study, ten components of skills and three components of general health were examined in patients presenting to veterans’ health and counseling centers in Tehran and the relationship between each skill and multiple levels of general health was assessed. ...