Reviews the conditions that encourage students to involve themselves in thinking and learning how to think while learning the facts, concepts, and relationships of the business discipline. (Editor)

A study of the creative performance of forty-eight preschool children from middle and lower income homes indicated that the boys produced more original ideas than the girls and that the middle class children were higher in creative fluency ability. (MF)

The philosophy, purpose and methods of the Creative Problem-Solving Institute are discussed. (RW)

The University of Notre Dame (Indiana) offers a new Masters of Business Administration course in creativity which uses a student-proactive paradigm that emphasizes skill development in synthesis rather than analysis to help future business managers use their creative potential to survive in the increasingly technical Information Age. (Author/CB)

Discusses several problems confronting education in the United States, argues that music educators are among the most guilty of avoiding and even discouraging creative thinking. Presents a model of creative thinking in music and examines the conditions of motivation and environment that are important for child development. (GEA)

The role of problem solving in divergent thinking and creative performance of 19 male and 10 female adolescents was studied. The subjects generated significantly more responses to discovered problems than to presented problems. The unique variance of discovered problems was related to five indices of creative performance. (SLD)

The dimensionality of the construct of original thinking was studied using measures designed to control for confounding of the construct by fluency and by task ambiguity. The subjects were 315 gifted children in grades 4-6. Original thinking was conceptually distinguished from general intelligence, but evidence for a concept of general originality…

Argues that technology not only represents a set of devices that teachers may use but, more importantly, advances a view about knowledge that shapes social existence and stifles the creative learning that most educators extol. Advocates humanizing educational technology and reintegrating it into the process of learning, not just the classroom…

Project THISTLE (Thinking Skills in Teaching and Learning) helps high school teachers integrate instruction in thinking skills within content area learning. Analyses of student achievement in reading comprehension illustrate the connection between reading, thinking, and learning. (SK)

Reported are studies designed to identify art and art-related experiences that enhance or reinforce cognitive development among kindergarten and first-grade children. These studies focus on conceptual thinking through transfer of image, creating thinking through clayforming, oral language through painting experiences, and letter recognition and…

Developing higher-level thinking skills in students has become an important goal of education. Several books are reviewed that help students apply and experience the thinking processes of fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration. (DF)

Among the research results on the perceptions of 207 intermediate grade students was the indication that, while problem-solving performance related only to intelligence and math achievement scores, ideational fluency related significantly to student perceptions of emphasis on higher level thinking skills in the classroom and positive classroom…

Learn from Columbus: to sail your schools into an unknown future, be prepared to toss out time-worn management approaches and take some creative risks. (Author)