Fostering Creativity

Author : Harvard Business Review
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422172650

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Fostering Creativity by Harvard Business Review Pdf

Every day on the job, you face common challenges. And you need immediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Series can help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable, concise guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with speed, savvy, and effectiveness. The latest volume in the series: Fostering Creativity To survive in today's hypercompetitive climate, businesses must innovate constantly. Innovation hinges on creativity--generating novel and useful ideas. By fostering creativity in your team, you help unleash your company's innovative powers. But this requires a disciplined process for leveraging employees' unique experiences, thinking styles, and expertise.

Author : Ella Karia Ed.D.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781491773970

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Fostering Creativity by Ella Karia Ed.D. Pdf

Dr. Karias development of the EYE (Early Years Education) Model serves to highlight essential elements for quality Full Day Kindergarten learning and through her research and teaching experience she is able to take a closer look at how to build more creativity into the lives of children. By encouraging children to develop individual ideas they are learning to master whole brain thinking - by questioning, exploring, and experimenting they are engaging in critical, deeper and higher order thinking. Fostering Creativity reaches out to educators, scholars, and policy-makers who are interested in schooling and child development. This well-researched book sparks curiosities and evokes vitality, vigor and value of the early years of education.

Author : Bonnie Cramond,Frances Karnes,Kristen R. Stephens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000493016

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Fostering Creativity in Gifted Students by Bonnie Cramond,Frances Karnes,Kristen R. Stephens Pdf

It is not possible to teach someone to be creative. It is not possible to teach someone to be intelligent. It is, however, possible to teach students to use the creativity and intelligence they already have. Students can be taught to think more creatively or intelligently, and can also learn strategies for thinking more rationally or imaginatively. Encouraging creative thinking in the classroom is an exciting component of any effective gifted education program. This guide offers basic foundations required for supporting creativity. From establishing the right classroom environment, to using creative teaching strategies, to assessing student outcomes, this book is filled with practical information. The book also includes a listing of competitive contests and programs and an extensive list of resources. This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education.

Author : Vincent-Lancrin Stéphan,González-Sancho Carlos,Bouckaert Mathias,de Luca Federico,Fernández-Barrerra Meritxell,Jacotin Gwénaël,Urgel Joaquin,Vidal Quentin
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264684003

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Educational Research and Innovation Fostering Students' Creativity and Critical Thinking What it Means in School by Vincent-Lancrin Stéphan,González-Sancho Carlos,Bouckaert Mathias,de Luca Federico,Fernández-Barrerra Meritxell,Jacotin Gwénaël,Urgel Joaquin,Vidal Quentin Pdf

Creativity and critical thinking are key skills for complex, globalised and increasingly digitalised economies and societies. While teachers and education policy makers consider creativity and critical thinking as important learning goals, it is still unclear to many what it means to develop these skills in a school setting. To make it more visible and tangible to practitioners, the OECD worked with networks of schools and teachers in 11 countries to develop and trial a set of pedagogical resources that exemplify what it means to teach, learn and make progress in creativity and critical thinking in primary and secondary education.

Author : Siu, Kin Wai Michael,Contreras, Giovanni J.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522509127

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Design Education for Fostering Creativity and Innovation in China by Siu, Kin Wai Michael,Contreras, Giovanni J. Pdf

To maintain their status in the global marketplace, it is imperative for emerging economies to focus on the creation of high quality products in order to compete with organizations worldwide. To increase their economic momentum, it is necessary to utilize innovative and creative strategies to discovery and produce desirable goods. Design Education for Fostering Creativity and Innovation in China discusses the issues surrounding Chinese policy by analyzing the role design education plays in fostering an innovation-based economy. This compendium of contemporary research explores the challenges and opportunities presented by design education, and strategies to foster creativity to sustain China’s economic progress. This book is ideal for educators, administrators, students of education, and policy makers in China and abroad.

Author : Bonnie Cramond,Kristen R. Stephens
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Creative ability in children
ISBN : 9781593631734

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Fostering Creativity in Gifted Students by Bonnie Cramond,Kristen R. Stephens Pdf

Encouraging creative thinking in the classroom is an exciting component of any effective gifted education program. This guide offers basic foundations required for supporting creativity. From establishing the right classroom environment, to using creative teaching strategies, to assessing student outcomes, this book is filled with practical informa

Author : Eric W. Stein
Publisher : Business Expert Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781606497999

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Fostering Creativity in Self and the Organization by Eric W. Stein Pdf

As a professional, this book will help you maximize your creative potential—learning that successful creative expression is a function of hard work and discipline rather than innate talent or genius. Reaching your creative potential requires an open mind and this book will help. The author discusses some of the mental models that facilitate or impede your development as a creative person. Since creativity encompasses so many things, the author focuses on four creative behaviors and cognitions critical to self-development and career advancement: improvisational capacity, design thinking, your experimental and scientific mind, and aesthetic awareness. These abilities are critical success factors for 21st century professionals. Inside, you’ll learn how to leverage these abilities along with innate strengths derived from your multiple intelligence inventory, which include linguistic intelligence, mathematical/logical intelligence, visual/spatial intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and naturalistic intelligence. You’ll also learn how to identify specific ways to accelerate your progress. The book concludes with a plan of action to systematically develop your creative potential over time.

Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451691689

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The Geography of Genius by Eric Weiner Pdf

Tag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley—and back through history, too—to show how creative genius flourishes in specific places at specific times. In this “intellectual odyssey, traveler’s diary, and comic novel all rolled into one” (Daniel Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness), acclaimed travel writer Weiner sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas. A “superb travel guide: funny, knowledgeable, and self-deprecating” (The Washington Post), he explores the history of places like Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, and Silicon Valley to show how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity. With his trademark insightful humor, this “big-hearted humanist” (The Wall Street Journal) walks the same paths as the geniuses who flourished in these settings to see if the spirit of what inspired figures like Socrates, Michelangelo, and Leonardo remains. In these places, Weiner asks, “What was in the air, and can we bottle it?” “Fun and thought provoking” (Miami Herald), The Geography of Genius reevaluates the importance of culture in nurturing creativity and “offers a practical map for how we can all become a bit more inventive” (Adam Grant, author of Originals).

Author : Aurora Brooks
Publisher : BornIncredible.com
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 101-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How to Foster Creativity in Your Child by Aurora Brooks Pdf

Author : A. J. Cropley,David Cropley
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : College teaching
ISBN : UOM:39015080821096

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Fostering Creativity by A. J. Cropley,David Cropley Pdf

Innovation is universally recognized as key components of first world economies that is vital for continued prosperity. This book presents a highly differentiated model which is capable of serving as a practical foundation for diagnosing, analyzing, optimizing and fostering creativity and innovation in a variety of organizational settings.

Author : Zackary PJ Stewart
Publisher : Zackary Stewart
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How to Manage Creative People and Foster Creativity within an Organization by Zackary PJ Stewart Pdf

Experimenting and prototyping new products and services requires creativity. Organizations must then acquire creative people. Psychologists have attributed the personality traits of conscientiousness and openness to creativity. Observed characteristics of Individuals who are high in the conscientiousness trait include the following: goal oriented, ambitious, careful, observant of people around them, organized, empathetic, and non-impulsive. Observed characteristics of Individuals who are high in openness include the following: adventurous, imaginative, artistic, and curious. How do organizations find creative people? Better yet, how do organizations formally organize and manage creative people? Do organizations prefer to integrate these type of people into broader departments, or does it make sense to have an explicit prototype and experimentation department? Should creative people be tasked to a team or work individually. If they are tasked to a team, how large should the team be? Do larger teams lead to more innovation and faster production of new products and services, or do large teams hinder the potential progress that a fewer participants could achieve? What, if any, routinization methods can be employed to increase the efficiency or quantity of prototype production? What training techniques can be employed to participants within the organizations to help them become more creative?

Author : Arthur J. Cropley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313390579

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More Ways Than One by Arthur J. Cropley Pdf

Current conceptualizations of children's thinking tend to be unneccesarily narrow, and to focus on what might be called convergent thinking. As a result, invention and innovation are often underemphasized in schools. This text aims to encourage a broad understanding of intellect, and attempts to help teachers to recognize and foster more varied forms of intellectual activity in their students. It offers a review of recent theory on creativity, conceptualizing this as a matter of getting ideas, trying the new, branching out and the like, rather than of producing artistic or scientific products. It discusses the factors in the classroom which block this more divergent kind of thinking and suggests practical ways through which teachers can promote bolder and more innovative intellectual activity in their students. This involves not merely cognitive factors (thinking, remembering, reasoning) but also motivation (courage and willingness), personality (openness to the new, self-confidence), and social factors (nonconformity, ability to communicate ideas). The text is applied in orientation, contains a large number of examples and case studies, and aims at providing practicing teachers with guidelines.

Author : Kay Cheng Soh
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789813234178

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Creativity Fostering Teacher Behavior: Measurement And Research by Kay Cheng Soh Pdf

This book deals with teachers' behaviors that promote the creativity of students. It includes a rating scale for measuring a teacher's creativity fostering behavior — a scale known as the CFTIndex — and a series of conceptualization and research papers, including a lead article by Professor Authur Cropley, whose original ideas served as the basis of the CFTIndex. The other papers in this volume are by international authors who have used the scale in their research and who can now share their experiences using it in this volume.There is a dearth of measuring instruments that cover teacher behaviors where creativity is concerned, but the CFTIndex fills this vacuum, as evidenced by the many articles using this index in the international arena of creativity research.

Author : Morris I. Stein
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483258065

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Stimulating Creativity by Morris I. Stein Pdf

Stimulating Creativity: Volume 1, Individual Procedures discusses the psychological and social factors affecting creativity, including techniques applicable in technological and consumer-related product areas. Creativity is a process consisting of three overlapping stages—hypothesis formation, hypothesis testing, and the communication of results. The book reviews past criteria of creativity, and then suggests techniques, based on social and psychological differentiating characteristics of creativity, that can stimulate creativity. The text also considers some procedures which the individual can use to stimulate creativity, or overcome blocks that stop creativity. The book explains in detail individual procedures, group procedures, as well the techniques appropriate in each stage of the creative process. The text notes that the creative process occurs in a social context, primarily manifested during the communication stage. The book considers the following group procedures for stimulating creativity, namely, brainstorming, creative problem-solving, synectics, and a personality-insight approach. Examples of programs employed in different companies or organization can free an individual from difficulties and problems, make him more receptive to other programs, or he can use these programs as basis to develop newer programs. The book can prove insightful for psychiatrists, psychologists, behavioral scientists, child educators, students or professors in psychology, for parents of young children or adolescents, and also for general readers interested in self-improvement.

Author : Sergei Abramovich,Viktor Freiman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031406393

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Fostering Collateral Creativity in School Mathematics by Sergei Abramovich,Viktor Freiman Pdf

This book explores the topic of using technology, both physical and digital, to motivate creative mathematical thinking among students who are not considered ‘mathematically advanced.’ The book reflects the authors’ experience of teaching mathematics to Canadian and American teacher candidates and supervising several field-based activities by the candidates. It consists of eight chapters and an Appendix which includes details of constructing computational learning environments. Specifically, the book demonstrates how the appropriate use of technology in the teaching of mathematics can create conditions for the emergence of what may be called ‘collateral creativity,’ a notion similar to Dewey’s notion of collateral learning. Just as collateral learning does not result from the immediate goal of the traditional curriculum, collateral creativity does not result from the immediate goal of traditional problem solving. Rather, mathematical creativity emerges as a collateral outcome of thinking afforded by the use of technology. Furthermore, collateral creativity is an educative outcome of one’s learning experience with pedagogy that motivates students to ask questions about computer-generated or tactile-derived information and assists them in finding answers to their own or the teacher’s questions. This book intends to provide guidance to teachers for fostering collateral creativity in their classrooms.