A study of 450 elementary students was made to examine the effects of Talents Unlimited (TU) teaching on students' productive and creative thinking scores. Results were not consistent across grade levels, nor from class to class. There seemed to be small to moderate associations between TU teaching and test scores. (Author/MT)

Eighty-nine Black preschoolers (advantaged and disadvantaged) participated in sociodrama, verbal training, or control groups. Among results was that differences in socioeconomic groups were related to creative response style rather than to overall ideational, fluency, and originality in divergent production. (CL)

The article describes exercises in drama and creative writing to broaden the imaginations of visually handicapped children through stories and poems with a nonvisual imagery. Examples of stories and poems written specifically for the visually handicapped are included. (Author/CL)

Argues for increased attention to informed awareness of the arts in education, and to the importance of an active engagement with the arts in developing critical as well as creative thinking. (Author/CMG)

In an examination of a school-based program to develop creative thinking skills of gifted children in the beginning intermediate grades, few differences were found in curricular achievement between gifted children in segregated homogeneous classes and in hetergeneous classes. (Author/CL)

Discusses the positive aspects of verbalizing ideas in order to provide a frame of reference which serves to clarify the concept. (Author/HV)

When compared to sighted children, blind children were found to be more verablly fluent, flexible, and original as measured by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. (ST)

The purpose of the art classes was to involve the children through firsthand experience in the enjoyment of their physical and aesthetic worlds. (Author)

As part of an inservice program, author attempted to explain the dangers of overcontrolling'' parents and teachers to the development of healthy children. Finding scholarly discussion generating little interest, he recalled a troubling experience encountered as a science teacher and told it in the poem and narrative of this article. (Editor/CB)

The author discusses a revision of a theory underlying the continuing development of the school instructional media center and its program. (9 references) (Author)

Provides explanations of how creative thinking might take place and lists some characteristics of creative scientists. (CP)

The author believes that creativity and intelligence in children develop only minimally according to a built-in pace but depend mainly on having the opportunities to develop. (AN)

The educational relevance of Herbert Read's theory of the nature of art is discussed. (DB)

Discusses the need for organizational innovation to meet the needs of our technical society by making organizations more creative. (MB)