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Cat Martins – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
This text offers a comprehensive analysis of the concept of the modern creative and imaginative child in Western education. Drawing on archived sources and historical works, it reframes childhood creativity as a social, cultural, and scientific construction, asking how our thinking and acting toward the creative child have been produced…
Descriptors: Creativity, Imagination, Children, Child Development
Gadzikowski, Ann – Redleaf Press, 2015
When children play, they often create a mess, but what a beautiful mess it is! "Creating a Beautiful Mess" describes the ten most important play experiences all children enjoy and how these experiences support learning, creativity, and social connections. These broad categories of play include building with blocks, pretending and make…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Toys, Imagination
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Beghetto, Ronald A., Ed.; Sriraman, Bharath, Ed. – Creativity Theory and Action in Education, 2017
Creative Contradictions in Education is a provocative collection of essays by international experts who tackle difficult questions about creativity in education from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The contributors to this volume examine and provide fresh insights into the tensions and contradictions that researchers and educators face when…
Descriptors: Creativity, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Creative Thinking
Bland, Derek, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2016
"Imagination for Inclusion" offers a reconsideration of the ways in which imagination engages and empowers learners across the education spectrum, from primary to adult levels and in all subject areas. Imagination as a natural, expedient, and exciting learning tool should be central to any approach to developing and implementing…
Descriptors: Imagination, Learning Processes, Educational Practices, Learning Theories
Liu, Eric; Noppe-Brandon, Scott – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
The best corporations know that innovative thinking is the only competitive advantage that cannot be outsourced. The best schools are those that create cultures of imagination. Now in paperback, "Imagination First" introduces a wide-variety of individuals who make a habit of imaginative thinking and creative action, offering a set of universal…
Descriptors: Imagination, Corporations, Creative Thinking, Creativity
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Anderson, Rosemarie; Braud, William – SUNY Press, 2011
Research approaches in the field of transpersonal psychology can be transformative for researchers, participants, and the audience of a project. This book offers these transformative approaches to those conducting research across the human sciences and the humanities. Rosemarie Anderson and William Braud first described such methods in…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Psychology, Humanities, Research Skills
Bouzoukis, Carol E. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers. They've found their way into every corner of our lives. Add to that, the pressures of the modern education with standardized tests and crowded classrooms, and it seems that our children have lost the simplicity of childhood. Are our children losing their imagination, too?…
Descriptors: Imagination, Play, Guides, Self Esteem
Faulkner, Dorothy, Ed.; Coates, Elizabeth, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This fascinating collection of international research offers fresh perspectives on children's creative processes and the expression of their creative imagination through dramatic play, stories, artwork, dance, music and conversation. Drawing on a range of research evidence from innovative educational initiatives in a wide variety of countries,…
Descriptors: Imagination, Curriculum Design, Childrens Art, Music
Chenfeld, Mimi Brodsky – Redleaf Press, 2007
Teachers usually enter the early childhood education profession aglow with purpose, drive, and imagination. Sometimes along the way, the inner flames flicker, or even disappear. In Celebrating Young Children and Their Teachers, Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld urges early childhood teachers to keep their lights alive by reflecting on the magic of the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Imagination, Creativity
Grenham, Thomas G., Ed.; Kieran, Patricia, Ed. – Peter Lang Oxford, 2012
Ireland is in the grip of a postmodern cultural deconstruction on many levels. The traditional "grand narratives" are increasingly viewed with suspicion and disenchantment as Ireland struggles to understand its evolving identity. There is a growing need for comprehensive interdisciplinary research that will facilitate teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)
Haviland, Virginia, Ed. – 1980
This book contains comments by ten authors of children's literature concerning the influences they feel account for the particular qualities that define their books and about creative writing and children's literature in general. In the first article, P. L. Travers stresses the importance of fairy tales, myths, and legends in shaping her work,…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Childrens Literature, Creative Writing
Murphy, Richard – 1974
Designed to encourage sustained independent writing, this book demonstrates ways that children were stimulated to invent their own Utopias, their own religions, new ways of fighting wars, and different schools. Contents include the following: "Traveling to an Imaginary Place; "Religion"; "Question of Continuity in Writing"; "War"; "Moving Toward a…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Creativity, Elementary Education, Imagination
Bower, Lyn – Early Childhood Australia, 2005
The "Everyday Learning" series has been developed to focus attention on the everyday ways in which children can be supported in their growth and development. It is for all those who are involved in children's development and learning, including people caring for young children in their own or others' homes, such as parents, grandparents…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Imagination, Child Care, Preschool Children
Witmer, J. Melvin – 1985
This book is intended to motivate persons working in the human and social service occupations toward fuller personal development as well as to improve professional competence. The first part discusses the process of becoming a more fully functioning person. Human potential, barriers to personal growth, self-fulfillment, and seeking pathways to…
Descriptors: Coping, Counselors, Creativity, Decision Making
Koste, Virginia Glasgow – 1978
The purpose of this book is to help parents and teachers recognize and understand dramatic play in childhood as a process whereby the child acts out human experience in an attempt to order, clarify, and understand it. Written by a person experienced in theatre and drama, the book considers the following aspects of dramatic play: the importance of…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Games, Creative Development, Creative Dramatics
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