The author argues that college educators will have failed if they do not teach today's conservative students to entertain new ideas and question cherished notions--however painful that process may be. Condensed from "The Chronicle of Higher Education," March 23, 1981, p64. (Editor/SJL)

Creativity and the characteristics of the creative personality are explored in an attempt to show both that creativity exists in handicapped children and is a valuable attribute to be developed in these students. Attributes of the creative personality are pointed out, and a model for the identification of creativity is presented. (Author)

Demonstrates why analogy exercises are useful in developing both vocabulary and conceptualization. (JT)

A prominent dancer/educator is interviewed about the "mind set" of today's aspiring dancers and about significant components in dance training. (Editor)

Presents a brief description of Adams County District 12's program to promote higher-level thinking skills in its elementary and secondary level gifted students. (SJL)

Offers a number of techniques designed to challenge or alter or disrupt how a student perceives reality, thereby facilitating student development in creative thinking. (RL)

Describes the types of mathematical games or puzzles that can be used in foreign language courses and dicusses the purposes they serve. Emphasizes their effectiveness as motivational learning stimuli and points out that they can be used either as instructional or reinforcement devices which force the student to "think" in the foreign language.…

This is a reprint of an article which originally appeared in 1950 in which Turing first describes "The Turing Test." The question "Can machines think?" is discussed in detail. (MK)

Imagery as it relates to creative imagination, incubation, and right brain activity, and as a subsystem of the General Systems approach, is discussed in terms of gifted education. Considered are the theories of G. Land (transformation theory), J. Gowan (developmental stage theory), and J. Eccles. (SBH)

The article describes two one-hour sessions in image making, which serves as the foundation of the creative language arts program used by the author in teaching poetry and writing to children (grades K through 5). (SBH)

The author cites experts on the nature of right hemisphere imagery, the vehicle through which incubation (the second component of creativity) produces creativity, and explores conditions under which imagery occurs. A summarization of the incubation process is provided. (PHR)

Shows how digging for details adds richness and new meanings to cliches. Provides student poems resulting from exercises with trite materials. (RL)

The capability of computers and their potential for thinking are discussed. (MK)

Guilford's (1967) divergent production tests and Wallach and Kogan's (1965) associative creative thinking tests are designed to measure abilities central to the creative process. However, results with these two batteries have been used to support alternative conceptions of creative ability. This research makes a beginning at studying these tests…

The absence of a systematically and readily available set of training activities may be the reason why studies on increasing creative thinking ability in educable mentally retarded children have had little or no influence on actual classroom practice. An experimental treatment program, commercially available and easy to administer, was used to…