creativity

Examples of creativity in the following topics:

• Notes

  • Creativity: find it; promote it - National Curriculum in Action: http://www.ncaction.org.uk/creativity/

• Advertising Strategy v. Creative Strategy

• The Creative Brief

• Creative Team Jobs

• The "Creative Concept"

• Introduction

  • Creativity - a magical talent, a sign of intelligence, or a skill to learn?
  • The purpose of this chapter is to shed light on the concept of creativity and its implications for teaching and learning.
  • Within the concept of creativity, we provide a portrait of what creativity may look like, a definition of creativity, an overview on some creative-thought models, and discussion of how the models and definition fit the introductory example of creativity.
  • In addressing the implications for teaching and learning, we offer an example of creativity in the classroom followed by a discussion of targeted strategies for teaching towards creativity in the classroom.
  • This is a narrated PowerPoint summary of this -Enhancing Creativity in the Classroom- chapter.

• References

  • How to kill creativity.
  • Handbook of Creativity.
  • Creative cognition.
  • Handbook of creativity.
  • Enhancing creativity.

• Creativity

  • Creative thought is a mental process involving creative problem-solving techniques and the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or the formation of new associations of existing ideas or concepts.
  • Studies of creativity cover everyday creativity, or daily creativity that we all experience; exceptional creativity, such as those with talents in music, art, literature, etc.; and artificial creativity, such as creating programs and computer-based technologies that can 'think' on their own.
  • Counterfactual thinking is viewed as an example of everyday creative processes.
  • In Wallas' stage model, creative insights and illuminations may be explained by a creative process consisting of five stages:
  • A modern model of creativity, proposed in 1992 by Finke and his colleagues, is the Geneplore Model, which states that creativity takes place in two phases:

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