This book contains comments by ten authors of children's literature concerning the influences they feel account for the particular qualities that define their books and about creative writing and children's literature in general. In the first article, P. L. Travers stresses the importance of fairy tales, myths, and legends in shaping her work,…

Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) combined with commonly accepted steps of the creative process (gathering material, reflection, inspiration, first draft or model, and evaluation) can be used to explore some of the possibilities of working with alphabet…

The focus of this study was on the processes students used in making mathematical conjectures for five divergent problem situations. The relationship of the processes to creativity factors across the problems was also examined. The results of various cluster analyses and correlational measures indicated that students use different sequences of…

The monograph on creative arts for severely handicapped persons presents 18 papers on program development and implementation. Among topics addressed are personnel preparation, self expression as a human right, mainstreaming severely and profoundly handicapped children in creative arts, square dancing, adapting wheelchair dance, arts for the…

This literature review is divided into sections describing studies that answer specific questions about reading and gifted children. Among the issues mentioned are the personality traits and attitudes of gifted children; their sex difference and environmental influences; the effect of early school admission; types of gifted programs; the…

THE PEER-CONFORMING BEHAVIOR OF HIGH CREATIVE FIFTH-GRADE PUPILS GROUPS DEVIATED LEAST WITH NEUTRALS. INFORMATION SCORES SHOWED CONTROLLED, SMALL-GROUP SITUATION, IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE NATURE OF THE TASK PRESENTED, THE SOCIOMETRIC COMPOSITION OF THE GROUP, AND ANY INTERACTION OF THESE VARIABLES. SUBJECTS OF THE STUDY WERE FIFTH-GRADE PUPILS IN A…

GIFTED AND TALENTED YOUTHS HAVE SUPERIOR PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL, AND EMOTIONAL TRAITS, FUNCTION BETTER PERSONALLY AND SOCIALLY, AND HAVE BETTER HOME BACKGROUNDS. THE GIFTED PERSON IS REGARDED AS "ONE WHO DEMONSTRATES CONSISTENTLY REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE IN ANY WORTHWHILE LINE OF ENDEAVOR." PROJECT TALENT ILLUSTRATED THE NEED FOR GREATER…

RACIALLY-UNBALANCED SCHOOLS SHOULD BE VIEWED WITH INTENSE CONCERN. NEGRO AMERICANS HAVE LEARNED THAT RACIALLY BALANCED FACILITIES ARE NECESSARY IF THEY ARE TO RECEIVE ANYTHING RESEMBLING EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. BALANCED SCHOOLS ARE NEEDED TO INSURE THE NECESSARY POLITICAL LEVERAGE. LEGALLY, THE QUESTION OF UNBALANCED SCHOOLS WAS ANSWERED IN THE 1954…

SEVENTH GRADE PUPILS IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA WERE INCLUDED IN A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF APTITUDE AND TRAIT MEASURES TO TEACHER RATINGS OF BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS OF CREATIVITY. ALL 443 CHILDREN HAD AN IQ OF 90 OR GREATER. EIGHT APTITUDE SCORES WERE USED AS MEASURES OF DIVERGENT THINKING IN SEMANTIC CONTENT. A SERIES OF TESTS WAS DEVISED TO…

THIS STUDY BEGAN AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE THE BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE MOTIVATING STIMULI FOR USE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WRITING PROGRAMS. IN PARTICULAR, IT DEALT WITH THE EFFECTS OF ORGANIZED AND UNORGANIZED STIMULI ON THE CREATIVE WRITING ABILITY OF THIRD- AND SIXTH-GRADE STUDENTS. THE CHILDREN WERE DIVIDED INTO SIX GROUPS. ONE GROUP OF…

BASAL READING (BR) AND INDIVIDUALIZED READING (IR) METHODS OF TEACHING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN TO READ WERE COMPARED TO DETERMINE THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO SKILL IN CREATIVITY AND PROBLEM-SOLVING. TEACHERS (N 29) WERE SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDY. FIFTEEN TEACHERS WERE DIVIDED INTO A RANDOMLY ASSIGNED (RA) GROUP AND A TEACHER PREFERENCE…