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Creative Thinking in Prospective Teachers: The "Status Quo" and the Impact of Contextual Factors
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Meintjes, Hannetjie; Grosser, Mary – South African Journal of Education, 2010
To create unique and appropriate learning opportunities and environments and to nurture the development of creative thinking abilities among learners are some of the demands for creative thinking currently expected of teachers globally and also in South Africa. Creative thinking in academic context assumes, among other things, the ability to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Thinking, Preservice Teachers, Context Effect
Creativity Differences between Reservation and Urban American Indians.
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Shutiva, Charmaine L. – Journal of American Indian Education, 1991
Among 150 eleventh grade American Indian students, those attending urban high schools were significantly more creative than reservation students on 5 of 7 variables of the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, Figural Form B. There was no significant difference between groups in academic achievement. Contains approximately 100 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, American Indian Education, Conformity
Final Report on Head Start Evaluation and Research: 1967-68 To the Office of Economic Opportunity. Section I: Part A, Middle Class Mother-Teachers in an Experimental Preschool Program for Socially Disadvantaged Children.
Pierce-Jones, John; And Others – 1968
A short term preschool readiness program was designed in 1967 to employ nonpedagogically trained middle class mothers as teachers for preschool disadvantaged children. The children chosen for this study were 43 Mexican-Americans and five Negroes from lower class families. Three classrooms, consisting of 12 children and three mothers each, were…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Blacks