An unusual approach to the definition of creative behavior and the development of educational programs which encourage creativity. (Editor)

Students scoring high on creativity measures ( Creative Thinking Abilities") were found to be more susceptible to persuasion. Treatment: author fabricated report on high school activities; criterion: Attitudes Toward Guidance Programs." Data from a follow-up study using Children's Withholding Opinion Scale indicate a relationship…

Twelve games are described which serve to reduce students' mathematics anxiety. Children solve problems by observing, visualizing, manipulating, finding patterns, and using logical sequence. Some games do not involve numbers, but all games require original thinking and encourage intuition. (JMK)

Stresses the importance of computers for children's learning ability, motivation, creative thinking, and social skills. (MP)

Describes 10 thinking games that are suitable for use in both elementary and secondary school classrooms. (FL)

Seeing archetypally is educationally significant. A curriculum that uses dream speech provides a new dispensation for learning about the self and culture. Teachers skilled in following images could connect students first to their prime dream images and then to cultural expressions of these images. (CJ)

Instances of thinking by 113 students over five-year period were scored with respect to four form aspects and seven content categories providing answers to three questions: (1) What does the average person think about and how does s/he think about it? (2) Are there identifiable categories of thinkers or identifiable thought patterns? (3) Are there…

Two contrasting concepts of how humans can best manage affairs and express leadership are explored. Both concepts concur in the conviction that bureaucratic/hierarchical management forms are due to be replaced by a better form. The concepts differ in underlying assumptions about the nature of the human mind and of leadership. (CJ)

Leadership for lifelong learning is necessary for the basic restructuring that the educational system needs. Educational administrators can and should enliven and change the system to accommodate the future. (CJ)

The author argues that, in all people, one hemisphere of the brain has dominance--either the left, logical side, or the right, creative side. He presents methods of improving the design and delivery of learning through developing the recessive hemisphere. (CT)

The theory and practice of analyzing jokes, with implications for class discussions. (RL)

After eight weeks of exposure to divergent-thinking situations in large and small groups and on an individual basis by specially-trained preservice teachers, experimental group kindergarten children were significantly superior to control group subjects on three measures of verbal creative thinking. (Author/RH)