Outlines two models of the curriculum based on assumptions about the mind, intelligence, and thought; and examines the concept of "thinking." (Author/PG)

A questionnaire for focusing college student attention upon the subtleties implicit in a three-dimensional model of creativity is presented. (BD)

Explores how thinking is organized, drawing upon the development of Darwin's thought from varying time perspectives. The struggle for coherence and identity in theory construction is seen as a dual process: that of an intutitive contact with the material and an abstract purposefulness and perspective. (Author/AM)

This paper describes how secondary teachers can use the Purdue Three-Stage Model as a framework for instruction that facilitates talent development in both heterogenous and homogenous classrooms. In the first two stages, students master the core content of a discipline and practice thinking creatively and critically about the content. In the third…

E. Paul Torrance's Instructional Model uses an integrated approach to teach thinking skills and creative productivity along with subject content for gifted students. Thinking skill objectives include such skills as developing originality, keeping open, imagining the future, using movement, etc. Two sample lessons apply the model to creative…

Structured by a three-dimensional learning theory model, an experimental teacher education project was designed to develop creativity in elementary school children. In this model, the interaction of standard curriculum and 23 project-oriented teaching strategies produced the components of productive-divergent thinking: fluency, flexibility,…