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Kim, Kyung Hee – Roeper Review, 2021
Asian culture has been test-centric for over 1,400 years. U.S. education has been since the 1990s. Based on Kim's creative Climates, Attitudes, and Thinking skills (CATs), creativity indicators were developed using the 2015 PISA questionnaires. Study I examined: (1) relationships between students' PISA science scores and CATs; (2) differences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Murphy, Peter – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
Powerful nations have influential systems of higher education. The article explores the possible pattern of geopolitics in the twenty-first century, and the competing prospects of America and its rivals in higher education and research. Pressures on both the American and non-American worlds are evaluated, along with relative economic strengths,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Power Structure, Geography, Politics
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Walshe, R. D. – English in Australia, 1971
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Teaching, Creative Writing, Creativity
Ogawa, Masakata; And Others – Ibaraki University Faculty of Education Bulletin, 1991
This study compared the creative thinking areas of flexibility and fluency of fifth grade Japanese and American children. A new instrument for cross-cultural settings, consisting of ten flexibility items and six fluency items, was constructed and administered to fifth graders. The results indicated that there were no differences in fluency between…
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests, Cross Cultural Studies
Bronwell, Arthur B. – 1973
It is the basic premise of this study that advanced societies are becoming too heavily impacted in archaic idea logistics and consequently tend toward stagnation. A profound transformation is developing, however, in the emergence of philosophically oriented idea logistics and radically new concepts of institutional organization which could enable…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Citations (References), Creative Development, Developed Nations
Edwards, Carolyn, Ed.; Gandini, Lella, Ed.; Forman, George, Ed. – 1998
This collection of essays and interviews documents the unique approach to early childhood education taken by schools in the Reggio Emilia region of Italy. Howard Gardner and David Hawkins provide reflections in chapters that begin the book. The book is then divided into four major parts. Part I includes an introduction by Carolyn Edwards and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Role, Creative Development, Curriculum Development
TORRANCE, E. PAUL – 1967
STUDIES OF CREATIVITY AND OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES IN CHILDREN HAVE SUGGESTED THE PRESENCE OF SLUMPS (OR INVERSIONS) WHICH MAY BE CORRELATED WITH DEVELOPMENTAL TRANSITIONS. THE MOST NOTABLE OF THESE OCCURS AT ABOUT THE FOURTH GRADE AND IS THE OBJECT OF THIS STUDY. THREE SETS OF INVESTIGATIONS WERE UNDERTAKEN--(1) A STUDY OF CREATIVE…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Comparative Education, Conformity, Creative Development
Edwards, Carolyn, Ed.; And Others – 1993
This collection of 18 essays and interviews documents the unique approach to early childhood education taken by schools in the Reggio Emilia region of Northern Italy for the last 30 years. The book is divided into four major parts. Part I includes an introduction by Carolyn Edwards and others, and the essay, "What Can We Learn From Reggio…
Descriptors: Art Education, Community Role, Creative Development, Curriculum Development