The author identifies and describes models for developing materials to teach creative thinking and problem solving skills. (CL)

A model for problem solving involving the use of analogical or metaphorical thinking as it applies to generalsystems synthesis is presented. (RW)

After participating for 14 weeks in the Purdue Creative Thinking Program (which fosterd divergent thinking abilities), behaviorally-disordered 11- and 12-year-olds (N=24) scored significantly higher on verbal (written expression) subtests of the Torrance Tests of Creativity than a control group of behaviorally-disordered peers (N=24). (Author/CB)

The multi-dimensional thinking involved in harmonic and temporal concepts of music touch the most basic structures of the mind. Those who do not accept music as a basic in education do not understand that the study of music fulfills the intellectual needs that are being sought elsewhere in education. (Author/KM)

Educators and advocates should strongly support the incorporation of aesthetic and art education into the school curriculum, since it provides images that help make comprehension of concepts easier. Evidence shows that, through art, music, and dramatic experiences, students learn to work together, express themselves, think creatively, and make…

A study of 33 children demonstrated that original thinking, the ability to generate unusual ideas, is relatively stable between ages 4 and 7 or 8. Original thinking was shown to be distinct from intelligence. An earlier study was replicated that found an order effect with popular responses occurring early and original responses later. (Author/VW)

The author shares how she used the Synectics Model in a class she taught on Family and Communication at the undergraduate level. The model encourages students to develop new ideas using their nonrational and emotional states of mind, and is intended to increase creativity, empathy, and problem-solving capacity. (CH)

This interview with David Perkins, codirector of Harvard's Project Zero and author of "The Mind's Best Work," focuses on the links between creative and critical thinking styles. Exercises in Venezuela's Project Intelligence are also discussed, along with possible curricular approaches to teaching skills. (11 references) (MLH)

To examine the relationship among cognitive styles/development variables and creativity, 84 college students participated in a battery of tests. Results of both canonical correlation analysis and discriminant function analysis offered reasonable confirmation that creativity is facilitated by mobile (vs. fixed), field independent (vs. field…

Suggests our society strongly needs thinking that is constructive, generative, and organizing; describes an educational program, CoRT (Cognitive Research Trust), which teaches creative thinking as a skill; and presents reasons for teaching thinking as a specific subject area. (MBR)

Explores the extent to which technology has affected creation and production in modern poetry and concludes that originality of expression has not been lost in the medium of newsprint or advertising text. (DF)

Berthoff defends her textbook "Forming/Thinking/Writing," stating that is is devoted to providing opportunities for students to discover their own minds in action, without "compartmentalizing" the writing process, as Gebhardt suggests. (HTH)

Classes that are having trouble with creative writing should stop writing and start talking because oral language skills must precede written language skills. (RB)

In these data and on the kinds of analogies produced by a group of highly original men and women, the simple image/direct analogy stands out as the significant thinking operation used to make the familiar strange. These subjects apparently have not found the need to use personal, symbolic, or fantasy analogy. (Author)

Final article in series dealing with results of a two-year study of college students. (SP)