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Tanggaard, Lene – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
The article is based on an empirical, interview-based research project investigating resources and barriers to creative teaching within three Danish primary and secondary schools. The analysis shows how project-oriented teaching does seem to represent a creativity oasis for both teachers and pupils. Furthermore, the work identifies a distinction…
Descriptors: Creativity, Instructional Innovation, Problem Solving, Creative Teaching
Grove-White, Annie – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2011
This paper proposes that given today's "wicked" problems (Malhotra, 1997), where there are complex issues with no clear answers, where boundaries are fuzzy and the outcome is usually never known and unexpected, creativity can be enhanced, at appropriate moments, by making modes of thinking explicit. Using a particular heuristic approach…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Thinking, Heuristics, Teaching Methods
Murphy, Gratia – 1979
Too often college composition students see language as an end in itself, rather than as a means to realization of self and world, and teachers need to establish a classroom environment that stimulates and demands that students use their language to find out about themselves. Techniques helpful in shaping composition classes toward this end…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Higher Education, Imagination
Hallden, Soren – 1977
The development of critical ability, or cognitive criticism, is being studied in a two-year Swedish project described in this progress report. Cognitive criticism is valuable in all occupational fields, but especially futurology and technology assessment. This project proposes to make concrete the aims of critical training, and to identify and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Critical Thinking

Duck, Lloyd Earl – Social Studies, 1985
Today, because of the problem-solving skills necessary for successful 21st century living, students must be taught higher-order thinking skills. Principles intended to stimulate discussion about the appropriate means for teaching higher-order thinking are examined. (RM)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Divergent Thinking