Article discusses ways to promote reflective thinking rather than continue to teach people what to think. (Author/MM)

Study is concerned with describing in detail how three fourth grade children responded to metaphorical experiences. (Author)

Project Implode has as its goals to gather and create materials, techniques, and strategies that will develop the creative intellectual talent of each pupil. (DB)

Thematic fantasies of highly creative adolescents were rated by clinical psychologists as exhibiting greater primary-process thinking than the thematic reports of matched controls; they also included a greater proportion of unlikely combinations, fluid transformations, visual representations, magic occurrences, and contradictions. (Author)

The Creative Education Foundation and Buffalo State University College will sponsor a program emphasizing creative methods and approaches. (CK)

Sentence combining by itself or teamed with creative thinking activities resulted in higher holistic ratings of writing samples for gifted fifth- and sixth-graders. Results further revealed that the writing quality was significantly higher for sessions within the classroom than for "pull-out" sessions. Four specific educational implications were…

Presents a model for the teaching of a creativity component in an advertising course. (HOD)

Olympics of the Mind, designed for highly creative K through 12 students, uses the basic elements (defined population, identification procedures, teacher training, student instruction, and problem evaluation) of a varsity sports model. (SB)

Intended primarily for the regular classroom teacher, the article discusses developing material for the gifted--Types I and II Creative Teaching Sequences. Type I is explained to focus on problem solving skills (specifically a positive attitude toward inquiry), while Type II builds on that attitude for advanced creative problem solving. (CL)

Suggests ideas for finding and writing good feature stories for the school newspaper. (HOD)

Alexander's primary contribution may be more theoretical than practical and may be idiosyncratic to his time and place. Though Dewey makes endorsement of Alexander's work, it is apparent that Dewey was aware of its lack of reliable research. (JN)

This paper views creativity as the combination of the conditions of interaction and transformation-imagination-fantasy. These conditions operate together, simultaneously, in order to define the complex process of creativity. (DB)

Ten ways to evaluate new software product ideas are presented, such as talking with computer user groups and advertising the product before development to determine consumer interest. Ten methods for generating new product ideas are also offered, including reading material on the fringe of one's work and soliciting opinions of potential clients.…