Since 2002, Creative Partnerships, based at the Arts Council of England, has been investing time, energy, and resources to bring artists and schools together. Their goal is to "animate the national curriculum and to enrich school life by making the best use of the United Kingdom's creative wealth." This article concentrates on the…

Virtual worlds have been linked with e-learning applications to create virtual learning environments (VLEs) for the past decade. However, while they can support many educational activities that extend both traditional on-campus teaching and distance learning, they are used primarily for learning content generated and managed by instructors. With…

This article explores ways of creating public art, ways of looking, and ways of remembering. It focuses on how one work in Albuquerque, New Mexico, twines around these three notions and produces new ways of thinking about each. In this article, the author focuses on one component within a larger work of public art--"Numbe Whageh" by Nora…

Specific training may be required to develop creativity in design students. At the very least, training is valuable in developing creativity in first-year students. Creativity is a skill that can be examined, used and taught--and it is one that is central to designing. This paper presents the results of empirical research from a class in creative…

This paper deals with the different aspects of solving technical problems. To solve a technical problem in an optimal way it is not enough to consider the appropriate technical and technological principles, the different organizational, economical, and ergonomical principles must also be taken into account. The didactic aspects of solving…

Defines and characterizes the steps involved in thinking creatively, pointing out numerous contraditions about creative thinking. (RB)

Article investigated creative thought and creative ideas possessed by those with if! minds as contrasted with the but! minds possessed by those whose initial response to the invitation to think and to extend is a reaction rather than a pro-action. (Editor/RK)

A discussion of how educators have neglected to consider the creative aspects of producing instructional media. (HB)

Author expanded on a study, "A Comparative Analysis of Creative and Intelligent Behavior of Elementary School Children with Different Socio-Economic Backgrounds" by reanalyzing the same data. (RK)

Creativity theory supports the conclusion that when a person recognizes the isomorphism in an analogic construct, that insight is the essentially creative act. Infraconscious mentation is more likely to produce insightful analogies than is rigorous, willful, consciously rational mentation, because infraconscious mentation, operating in the mode of…

The study was conducted to examine the relationship between hypermnesia (spontaneous recovery of previously unretrievable information without access to retrieval cues) for concrete and abstract words and creative thinking abilities in two groups of 30 undergraduates each. Ss were asked either to form an image or to construct a meaningful sentence…

In almost every classroom there is a minority of children that, regardless of effort, teachers have difficulty working with. The "Suggestion Circle" is a method for soliciting streamlined, on-focus ideas for solving classroom problems with the help of colleagues. In the Suggestion Circle there are three roles for people: the person who…

While there is increasing evidence that creativity can be improved through training, the spacing of the training has not been studied. This study assessed the effect of spaced training on the use of creative imagination in 110 undergraduate students. The research design was a randomized delayed posttest-only design. The independent variable was…

A new method of long-rand planning, called "Inventing the Future" (IF), requires planners to break established patterns of thinking. Instead of planning the future on the basis of Extension's past, planners are encouraged to think in terms of what they want Extension's future to be. (AG)

Study evaluates an intensive training program with gifted young adults in inducing creativity. (GB)