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Fostering Creativity, Individualism, and the Imaginative Spirit: Are Collaborative Thinking and Cooperative Learning Overemphasized in Education Today?
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Hillmann, Paula J. – Online Submission, 2004
Are creativity and imaginative thinking impeded by the emphasis that many American schools place on cooperative learning and collaborative thinking today? This paper explores past and present philosophies concerning individualism and creativity as they relate to education in the USA. A person's ability to individuate is based on the premise that…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Philosophy, Individualism