Advances 12 hypotheses to answer (1) What is creativity? (2) Why does creative behavior occur? (3) How does it occur? while including theoretical contributions by Freud, Jung, Adler, Rank, neo-Freudians, inter-personal theorists, trait theorists, association theorists and relevant research findings. (MB)

Describes the Creative Studies Project, which proposes to increase the degree to which American education cultivates creative potential in our society. (Author/DR)

Organizational leaders have a responsibility to encourage and maintain creativity within their organizations, middle managers share in this responsibility and can take significant steps to help discharge this responsibility. (Author)

Author discusses the need to develop art programs that are relevant to today's special educational needs. Premises on which such programs should be built are discussed. (LF)

An examination of the nature and scope of theater training offered in Australian universities, professional schools and workshops. (RB)

Suggests that the metaphor of the writer as potter is more revealing of the actual act of composing than is that of the writer as map-maker. (RD)

Effects of creativity instruction on creative writing of 49 learning disabled intermediate students were examined. Analysis of Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking scores revealed that Ss in the experimental group made significantly greater scores than a control group on the creative thinking variables on the verbal (written expression) subtests.…

Presents longitudinal data on 92 creative young adults in grades 3 through 6 on Sounds and Images, a test of imagery, with four criteria of later creativity: (1) number of post-high school creative achievements, (2) number of creative life-style achievements, (3) quality of creative achievements, and (4) creativeness of career image. (CL)

Changes in creative thinking, as measured by Torrance's Thinking Creatively with Pictures, and in dance/movement skills were investigated in 20 hearing impaired students, aged 9 to 14. Analysis of covariance showed that students given dance training improved significantly in originality, elaboration, total thinking creatively score, and…

Reviews studies examining the relationship between IQ and creativity involving 6- to 13-year-old children. Discusses the effectiveness of creativity training programs. (Author/RH)